Quotes About Culture

I had one of the best nights of my life at Mardi Gras.

I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We used to go listen to black American soul.

In childhood, we used to read stories from the Arabian Nights. Why were we so interested when it happened somewhere in Arabia, in a different culture? Until now, we hadn't gone to the Hindi audience with a good story.

If you go to America, so many club nights finish at 1 A. M. and it's so lame.

Awards nights are a part of our modern culture; they're part of what we do.

My dad's European, so when I was a little kid, I couldn't wear things like Nike, so I grew up wearing Adidas.

Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.

On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

I got my first relaxer when I was nine years old. This was in the '90s, and I convinced my mom to let me perm my hair so I could wear a French roll with the crimps in the front.

When EA acquired Bullfrog there were, like, 35 people, and within nine months there were 200. And any feeling of culture and inventiveness was diluted by that.

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

What I particularly liked about Nineties hip hop was it had a certain reverence for the groove that I hadn't been hearing in a while.

I think the ladette culture was a label thing, and it was the nineties and it was Britpop and it was quite wild.

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.

Nineties hip-hop was a big influence for me; it still is. I love '90s everything. And it's when I was born, too. I'm a '90s kid for sure.

Early Nineties - that was what it was all about: how people dressed on the terraces.

Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze. They don't see themselves anymore.

I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on.

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

Growing older, you respect the whole culture behind Nirvana.

When I was young I used to watch MTV, Nirvana, or Guns N' Roses.