Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

I play a nobody in Japan.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Everybody is entertained to death.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‚Doctor Who.‘ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

America is just downright mean.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology – looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

London is a roost for every bird.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

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.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.