Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Culture Quotes
CultureIdentityPerceptionPerspective The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
CultureHistoryReligionTravel Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
CreativityCultureFreedomIdealsProgress Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
CultureFoodLocationPreferenceTravel You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.
CultureIdentitySocietySportsTradition Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
CreativityCultureFashionIdentityOrigins 'A' comes from Artist. And 'Boogie' from the Bronx. 'The Hoodie' part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.
Culture Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
CultureHeritageIdentitySupportTradition Supporting Celtic, waving a tricolour because your parents are Irish - that's a valid culture.
CultureIntelligenceMilitaryStrategy An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
CultureIdentityMythologyPowerSociety I feel, since 2001, this huge need for Americans to have superheroes on the screen. This idea that a super-being will protect you. That this being can go above the law but, at the end of the day, would be a good force and defeat the evil. This idea that this half-god exists. This need in the subconscious of America to find these gods.
CultureFamilyInfluenceMemoryMusic Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.
CultureInfluenceInterconnectionPracticesScience Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
CultureDreamsLifestylePersonal PreferenceTravel I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now.
CommercialismCulturePerceptionReality and Fantasy The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
ArtsCitizenshipCultureDutyLiterature To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
CultureExperienceGenerationsLiteratureMemory Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
CommunicationCultureEntertainmentHuman Experience Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
CulinaryCultureFoodPreferenceTravel Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.
AffectionComfortCultureIdentityPlace Attachment I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
CommunityCultureMusicSportsYouth Highbridge - everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin' or playing basketball.
CultureInfant MortalityNaming Customs According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
CultureMarketsPreferencesShoppingTravel I think the flea markets in L.A. are the best shopping; otherwise, I shop a lot when I'm in Europe.
CultureIntelligenceKnowledgeReligionScience Isis want to destroy the knowledge that Islam is a beautiful, scientific and intelligent culture, and we are way ahead of them.
ConsumerismCultureDisciplineImpulsivenessPolitics Consumer culture needs us to be impulsive, while our political culture fears that we will ever develop discipline.
BeliefCultureDedicationIdentityPassion I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
AmbitionCultureDreamFocus I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.