Quotes About Culture

In Sweden, you're not supposed to think you are someone.

I'm not saying everything in Sweden is perfect, because it's not. But it is interesting having grown up in a social democratic country such as Sweden and then watching what's going on in the U.S. and the income disparity.

We learn to laugh from the cultures that suffered most - from the Russians, Poles, and Irish - not from Sweden or France (the French go for Jerry Lewis - enough said).

Sweden is a good country to raise a family in because there is an equality there I don't feel in the States.

I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

Everybody in Sweden knows MMA now. It's mainstream.

I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden.

Spending time in Sweden on loan was one of the best things I ever did.

Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.

We don't do 'dating' in Sweden.

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.

I've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day.

Canada was for me very much Sweden, you know? Very much open people, that they read books, they go see films. I felt at home in Canada. And also, you speak French.

England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.

Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.

You don't take food home from restaurants in Sweden.

May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.

We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.

The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.