Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come here and act like I'm an American. I want to showcase the dynamic potential Korea has, and I want to prove that as an artist.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

I live in Australia, and I am Australian, and because I grew up in an era where we didn't have a film industry, and now we do, it's just really exciting for me to be able to say that I work in my own culture in a medium that I find fascinating.

From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most obnoxious one, depending on your point of view).

I think of Westernized culture as a good visual for my music.

Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

I was shocked when I moved to Sydney how very few indigenous people I came across. And so when I go to places like Maroubra or Redfern or Waterloo or Erskineville, I feel more at home because of the people I'm around - anywhere I can see a face that reflects someone that looks like my family, I feel much more at home.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.

Unfortunately, I don't look as Latin as I am. I get called a white guy a lot, but I am very proud of my heritage. I try my hardest to bring honor to my Mexican roots. Latin people are very passionate and loyal, and I will always remember who I am and where I come from.

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.