Labrinth Quotes

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

I could never dream of being cool.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.

I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

You don't realise how cool your culture is until you get out of that phase of trying to fit in.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

I've never been cool - and I don't care.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.