Quotes About Culture

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that.

People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do.

If you grow up in Germantown, Pennsylvania, as I did, 5:30 means 5:30.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

'What will people say?' is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with.

Only the French people say French food is the finest cuisine in the world. If you ask anyone else, they will tell you the best food in the world is Italian.

People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.

There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

I don't want to say I hate remixes, because I don't, but I hate what instantly comes to mind now when people say 'remixes.'

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

I like the Klopp mentality but at the same time, I like the Pep culture about football because always we need intensity with and without the ball.

People talk about ballroom, but they don't really understand the history. Crystal Labeija, Avis Pendavis, Paris Dupree, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey. These were the women that really brought ballroom to life.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films.

Radio is being dominated by records that are 120 beats per minute. R&B is about groove and soul.

Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.

If you look at the creative economy in this country, it's per capita way bigger than any other in the world.

If you go around Colombia or Latin America, without doubt you will find that 80 per cent of the time, you're discussing the past and only 20 per cent about the future.