Culture Quotes

"I'd love to spend a year at the Sorbonne studying French culture."

"I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about."

"My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture."

"The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina."

"I think hip-hop always shifts culture."

"There is no other language as similar to Hebrew like Arabic."

"I am interested in exploring encounters where worlds meet and not where they separate."

"Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know."

"I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!"

"Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile."

"Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?"

"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."

"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."

"One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world."

"In Australia, kids play in American accents."

"There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full."

"A Mediterranean city is really my culture."

"In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo."

"It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films."

"There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan."

"I must stick with Chinese language films."

"Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time."

“The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.”

“I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.”

"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."

Clifton Fadiman