Quotes About Culture

I'm just gonna talk about being Nigerian-American. I'm gonna talk about being single. I'm gonna talk about what happened to me on the train today. I'm gonna talk about so many other things that, as a comic, you're able to talk about because you see the world in sarcasm.

I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

I am a rooted person, 'Awwal' is a social satire.

You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.

I feel great about coming to Saudi Arabia.

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

It's the people and their stories that make Australia great. The scenery isn't bad either.

In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.

Egyptians are quite incredible people. They have everything: the culture, the music, the scenes. So much of Arab music and art started there.

I was writing in English since my school days in Amritsar.

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

I was in India as scientist doing post-doctoral research for about four months. I fell in love with India.

I listen to a lot of music from outside, lot of background scores.

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.

I'll always have a relationship with Scotland.

I love coming back to Scotland.

I really got into Gaelic music and the whole sound of it, and I got to go to Scotland.