Quotes About Culture

When you work in Norway, you actually have to have a contract about lunches because Norwegians don't eat lunch normally, so they just throw out a loaf of bread and some coldcuts.

My Norwegian family says, 'You're the most grounded American we've ever met.'

I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

I'm, like, half Norwegian and half Italian.

'Uff da,' for the unenlightened, is Norwegian for 'oy vey' and is a common expression in Minnesotese.

I dream in Norwegian, I count in Norwegian so that basically makes me Norwegian now, I suppose.

Thandie has no interest in race. She thinks it's just a Freudian concept by definition, and there's more genetic difference between a Kenyan and a Ugandan than there is between a Kenyan and a Norwegian... she believes entirely that nationality is nothing but accident.

I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

I would say my flow is Aboriginal. Look at my face, nose, lips, and eyes.

Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

It's funny because I think that genre literature can be looked down on by literature literature. And I like that! I like being scorned; I like people looking down their noses at us a little bit... It gives us a little chip on our shoulder.

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from.

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

I'm not the number-one fan of the heavy holiday meal. And also, I didn't grow up eating them, the traditional Western holiday meals, so it's just not something I have a nostalgic relationship to.

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I'm not interested in how people dress.

I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.

I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.

Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art gallery, go to a museum, become somehow interested in these things. If they're not interested, they shouldn't be in government, full stop.

People think that I'm not interested in doing Marathi films, but that's not true. Marathi cinema is very close to my heart.

I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.