Quotes About Culture

I don't think that most of my peers in rock criticism are from the West Coast. I think most of them are from the East Coast.

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap.

I grew up on the West Coast during the '80s. But I wasn't a 'valley girl,' since I grew up in Norwalk, which was filled with Latina girls.

I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.

Snoop is West Coast. He represents that to the fullest.

When I went to West Point, I was there with cadets from 50 other states and territories. Cadets from other countries, and you learn all of these things about our country, about our culture, our heritage, our ethnicity. At the end of the day, you come back, we all wear green, and we all consider ourselves an Army.

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

I'm from Manhattan. I'm some Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

Love stories happen in communities outside of just the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

I was a Spanish dancer. I don't mean to put that down, because that was great, too, but nothing like the kind of dancing you had to do in 'West Side Story,' which was called jazz.

I'm not really a big musical fan. I enjoyed 'West Side Story' when it came out, but it gets a bit tired in the end.

I'd lived in West Virginia on and off for four to five years growing up. I'm familiar with Bible Belt, with Appalachia, 'Hillbilly Elegy.'

Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table.

Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.

People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.