Johnny Vegas Quotes

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.

People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.

Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from a family of storytellers. They can't just tell you how someone went to the store. They have to tell you who they saw, what they were wearing, what they said, what they had in their grocery cart.

It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

The Kurds were in the Middle East long before the Arabs.

I am neither a Serb nor a Bulgarian, I am a South Slav.

Go ask Virginia— go ask even noble Maryland ... to show you her people, canals, railroads, universities, schools, charities, commerce cities, and cultivated areas.

I'm not opposed - we manufacture a lot of socks in North Carolina - I just choose not to wear them. It's a Southern thing. It's a cultural thing.

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.

It is true that of all the states in India, Nagaland has a unique history. We are sensitive to this historical fact. But this uniqueness has in no way diminished the spirit of patriotism among the Naga people.

One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

I feel like Canada is really good at nurturing their artists, and America's not so good at that. The artistic community is so important to a country.

I am completely attached to my roots, and therefore you will see a Pahadi touch in all my albums.

I do know where I'm from, and I'm proud to be an Arkansan and to represent country music.

I'm very proud of my Southern accent, it's part of me.

If Bombay can become Mumbai, Bangalore can become Bengaluru, Madras can become Chennai, and Calcutta can become Kolkota, there is no reason why Allahabad should not become Prayagraj and Faizabad should not become Ayodhya. To re-establish our original identity, we have renamed these places. I am happy that people have welcomed this.

The younger generation of filmmakers is concerned about our roots, rather than making films with characters plucked out of the cloud or some English DVD. Actually since 2000, Tamil cinema is going through some positive changes.

I am a pakka South Indian at heart.