Quotes About Culture

Fashion is important, man.

Fashion has always been as big a part of my life as football has.

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

I'm knee-deep into fashion; I'm knee-deep into movies.

When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

Walking around town and driving around London - it's like a fashion show on every corner.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.

I belonged to a conservative Punjabi family and I didn't want to get too close to a rich boy who drove fast cars.

I want to reshape fast food in America.

Of course cake is not bread. Is this why Americans are fat? You confuse cake with bread?

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

New York is a good city for not having to get fat.

Us Danes have amazing pastries, but we're not a fat nation.

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

I'm Canadian! My father's Canadian.

My father runs a restaurant business in Delhi, so if I had chosen to sell kebabs, it would be far easier for me than for anybody else.

It is the responsibility of all of us to create a culture that encourages and enables fathers to spend more time with their families.

Most Americans, I don't think, could fathom the society that I grew up in. It is a completely different philosophy from America's. You are basically told what you can be by the educational system.

I remember my roommate was watching 'Seven Samurai,' and I just couldn't fathom why anybody would watch it.

Totalitarians always want to kill culture. But imagine life without football, Faulkner, or Bob Dylan. It's not life.

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'