Quotes About Culture

I love Viennese waltzes and polkas, and especially ceilidhs and old-fashioned formation dancing.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

I've learned in my older age that sexy gets you further than brains.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music.

As far as stand-up, a lot of Asians and Chinese are not as apt to stand-up, especially the older generation since they don't even know what stand-up is.

Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They look like dinosaurs.

Every continent on Earth has a form of bullroarer - it's the oldest instrument known to man.

When I was 6, 7 years old, I was raised on all the old-school stuff. My momma used to play oldies in the house. That's all my momma used to play around the house was oldies.

I listen to a lot of oldies stuff. Some Motown, Michael Jackson, jazz, etc.

My heritage is really important to me. I've always had that olive complexion and the squished nose, and I just think it's important to do the best I can to be a good role model.

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

The Olympics are never just about sports.

We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.

Each Olympics is different with their own great parts to it.

It's very important, especially in the basketball culture. We like our fashion. Coming into the NBA, you definitely have to step it up because you're competing on and off the floor. Not only on the court, basketball-wise, but a lot of us take pride in our style, too.

Working with Kal Penn in 'Namesake' was funny at times. What we did was so real. We had fun on and off the sets, too.

It was a great two years in Italy, I played a lot of games and gained experience in a different league. So you pick up new stuff, new ways of doing things, on and off the pitch, and I think that has made me a better player, and also more mature mentally.

Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one.