All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

I got my buzz from playing.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

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.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

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.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I feel Anglo-American.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Everybody is entertained to death.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

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

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Obscenity comes from grime.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

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.

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

Pop music will never be low brow.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

I like to take it easy.

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

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

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

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

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

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

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

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

I don’t race cars.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

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

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

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.

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