India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

The mainstream is always under attack.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.

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.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

I never have really become accustomed to the ‚John.‘ Nobody ever really calls me John… I’ve always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It’s a name that goes well together, and it’s like one word – John Wayne.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

I play a nobody in Japan.

I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

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

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

When you’re all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.