Quotes About Culture

Despite having an Indian grandmother and a Nepalese father, I have never been to India before. I have been to Nepal a couple of times, which isn't that far.

The people in Nepal don't care about alpinism; they just care about money.

I'm a black nerd - a blerd!

As soon as I heard the term 'comedy nerd,' I'd hoped there was a lot of them.

Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.

You can't play a hobbit if you're not prepared to be a part of nerd culture.

I call myself a nerd all the time.

I've been a nerd my whole life.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

I'm a bit nerdy about accents. I love it.

I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.

People ask me in Europe, when they do interviews... they ask me, 'Well, how does it feel to be a cook in a country that doesn't know how to eat?' It always touches a nerve, because Europe and the world think that America is no more than bad hot dogs and bad burgers.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

It's hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that is too nervous, too crazy, and perhaps too interesting for some people.

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives.

I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni Netanyahu, about Hannah Senesh and S. Y. Agnon. I want every child to know how to read the Bible, and know how to make Kiddush.

I think Netflix is responsible for what will become how we view television.

When I lived in Holland, it was a lot of television, watching Netflix all the time. You eat at 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, you are finished at 8, and then you go lay down. You rest. That's what I did in Holland.

We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands.

Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.