Patrick Stump Quotes

On Halloween, because we don't celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture.

One of the pleasures of living in London is the opportunity to do things that are only possible in a city of its size.

Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

I know when I was little, having my Thai mom, even I was weird about fish sauce and fish heads and clams. I kind of sided with my dad because he was a big American guy. So, we were very meat and potatoes, but I really wish I had grown up appreciating my mom's taste a bit more.

I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.

I simply love to live here. London is a world city. There is so much you can do. There are many different cultures here, and I just feel very, very comfortable.

I grew up in San Diego with immigrant parents, before the food blogs, before this kind of celebrity chef culture we know now.

I spent my whole life in Maryland, but I wanted to experience more - fighting to get to urban areas where there was culture.

I spent two and a half years in Louisville, and I loved it.

I'm originally from Phoenix, Arizona, but I've fallen in love with London.

This is L.A. You wanna learn Spanish? Take the bus.

I was interested in immigration and I wanted to use that in the film, not necessarily to talk about immigrants, although I wanted to do that, but to talk about ourselves through the eyes of an immigrant. The film takes place in the school and it tells us a little bit about who we are and where we're at, but through the eyes of someone who has a different background.

I am the byproduct of an Ellis Island orgy, basically. I'm everything. I've got quite a mixture in me. I know a lot of it and I don't know some of it. I'm pretty mixed up, but mostly Russian and Irish.

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or comedies that take place in the life that they've grown up in. That's a very special fortitude. Other brains have a curiosity for what they don't know - the life they're not leading.

I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.

It always freaks me out when I go to a sushi place and there's a Mexican.

My parents left Iran in 1979 and moved to France and then moved to the U.S. My brother was born in France and I was born in New York. I think my parents left France because they felt their kids would never be accepted by French culture. Here they thought we could feel American - that we could feel safe in that way - which was important to them, given what their experiences were in Iran. They used to joke about how I could be president because I was the only one born in America.

We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.

We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.