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.

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

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

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

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

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

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

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

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

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

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

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.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

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.

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.

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.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

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

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

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I play a nobody in Japan.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

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

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‚If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.‘ But if it’s open and you’re walkin‘ by, feel free to say, ‚Hello.‘

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.

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.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

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

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

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