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People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.
David Sedaris

Hate, Live, Moving

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.
Annie Dillard

Person, Body, Six

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.
Ice T

Music, Happy, Hard

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.
Ice T

Money, Art, Car

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
Ismail Merchant

Words, Here, Few

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
Vladimir Putin

Enemy, Imagine, Difficulty

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.
Al Yankovic

Pop, Disposable, Gotten

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
Al Yankovic

Call, Nerds, Hip

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
Katey Sagal

Written, Motorcycle

I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC - this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and no obvious reaction to it at all. I mean, they have guards at the gate at USC - guards at the gate of a major university! And the guards chase young black boys away - I've seen it, chasing 8-year-old boys.
Anna Deavere Smith

Mean, Black, Living

To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
Anna Deavere Smith

Life, Respect, Strong

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
Stephen Gardiner

Lost, Western, Ancient

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
Irvine Welsh

Writing, Everything, Makes

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.
Edward James Olmos

Beauty, Down, Two

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
Billie Jean King

Work, Live, Person

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Matthew Arnold

Character, Growing, Perfection

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
Umberto Eco

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
Rem Koolhaas

Between, Takes, Four

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
Trevor Dunn

Marketing, Demand, Pop

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
Geoffrey Rush

Time, Dad, School

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.
Jane Campion

Two, Thoughts, Problem

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
Ravi Shankar

God, Respect, Musical

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.
Ron Perlman

Research, Continuing

The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.
Nicki Minaj

Happy, Free, Makes

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
Vince Cable

Long, Real, Problem

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
James Hillman

Home, Car, Children

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'
Cynthia Nixon

Mom, Dad, Famous

I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.
Cynthia Nixon

Pop, Fairly, Loop

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
Stanislav Grof

Life, Death, Study

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.
Rihanna

Hard, Perfect, Growing

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