Quotes About Culture

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.

When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.

There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.

I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere apart from the odd holiday on the Costa Del Sol.

It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American.

My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue about. But that's - anyway that's how I was brought up, so it would be odd for me to suddenly just up and start wearing a headscarf.

What's odd is that Romanthony and Todd Edwards are not big in the United States at all. Their music had a big effect on us.

I hated going to school, and I think a huge part of that was because of the racism that I experienced growing up there. From that, I sort of developed this social anxiety that I only feel when Im in Australia, which is odd.

Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.

If an offer comes my way, I would love to sing in every Indian language. It will be like an ode to my fans from every corner of the country.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

I feel like Houston is one of the leading things in music culture. Everyone loves the Houston culture. It needs to have its own monument, its own moment for artists like me, artists like Beyonce who set it off.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

I don't see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear.

I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.

People take getting offended in L.A. to an art form.