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

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

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

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

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

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

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.

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

London is a roost for every bird.

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.

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.

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.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

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

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

I think everyone’s inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, ‚Well, if everyone likes it it can’t be that good.‘ Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

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.

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

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.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

I feel Anglo-American.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I’m an Irish man.

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

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.

Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

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

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

Coffee is a language in itself.

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

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 just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

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

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.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

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

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

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.

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.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

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

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

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

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.

Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers‘ songs and so forth.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.