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

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.‘

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

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

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

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

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

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.

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.

Y’all are so cute and y’all talk so proper over here. I love England.

Everybody is entertained to death.

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

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.

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.

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

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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.

Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.

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.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

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

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

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.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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

The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

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.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

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.

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.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

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

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.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

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.