Quotes About Culture

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.

I love throwing myself into a place or a period or a point of view. In 'Fledermaus,' I loved throwing myself into the world of Vienna at the turn of the century. It was a lot of fun.

I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.

But yes, I really feel great in Austria, I love my home and Vienna is just the best place to be.

I'm head-over-heels in love with Southeast Asia. Every time I touch down in Thailand, Cambodia, or Vietnam, the air washes over me, and I feel like I'm home. From the people to the food to the history, there's just no place like it.

In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

I would like to dive in Vietnam and Cambodia.

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

I've been to Vietnam and China, so it's great to see new places and experience the culture and people.

My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a little bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic sights, sounds and profound history of love, bravery and resilience.

Normally, I try to get my haircut when I'm in a developing country. Last time, it was in Vietnam.

In Hue, Vietnam, we had savory rice pancakes with crumbled shrimp and pork rinds. I've still never had a version as good.

But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.

I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America.

I'd love to go to Indonesia, Bali, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

In Vietnam, we can go and get big audiences, and we've been going there for so long. A lot of other hip-hop groups don't even go.

I've been to all these places all over the world: Portugal, Vietnam, you name it.

I'm from the Vietnam generation.