A Quote by Ang Lee

My cultural roots are something illusive.

Ang Lee

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Ang Lee
Chinese - Director
Born: October 23, 1954

I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of reading about slavery in a book or hearing about it in class. It became something that swept people along.

John Ridley

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

Malcolm X

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

John Green

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Jack Kingston

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

Keorapetse Kgositsile

If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it.

Ezra Furman

I underestimated the low level of capacity. I also underestimated the cultural roots of corruption.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I spent time living in Ethiopia, learning about the cultural importance of coffee and its roots in Ethiopia.

Rohan Marley

The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.

Russell Peters

You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.

Alex Kapranos

Russell Peters

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

Richard Dawkins

Even Bollywood films set in rural areas have music with a western touch. So, this has resulted in listeners losing touch with their cultural roots.

Vidyasagar

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.

Ellen Willis

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

William Butler Yeats

The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.

Shashi Tharoor

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