Quotes About Cultural

One of the other things that I love about Miyazaki's films, is that when he sets a film in Europe, it's not a documentary - it doesn't really look like Europe, but it's something he internalises, synthesises and weaves into his work. I love seeing that cross-cultural exchange.

I've played roles that aren't expected of an Asian.

I've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is.

I had to know at least two languages.

I have been working in seven languages.

I consider myself blessed that I am multi-lingual and now-a-days we all speak at least two-three languages.

I was very nervous about speaking in Punjabi. I have learnt it by heart.

Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.

Shakti' is a very loose adaptation of 'Not Without My Daughter.'

Since 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' I started to spend a lot of time in the United States, and my son was born there.

As an Asian man in the industry, you had to know martial arts.

It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas and cultural energies are regarded as corrupt, one or another kind of pornography. This is how it is with towns.

Where were you when James Dean died?" he said in a threatening voice.

Knowledge in the head includes conceptual models; cultural, semantic, and logical constraints on behavior; and analogies between the current situation and previous experiences with other situations.

It was interesting to see the change that came over Boris when he was speaking another language—a sort of livening, or alertness, a sense of a different and more efficient person occupying his body.

Our current Western cultural plausibility structure elevates science and scorns and mocks religion, especially Christian teaching. As a result, believers in Western cultures do not as readily believe the supernatural worldview of the Bible in comparison with their Third World brothers and sisters.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

Renunciar a la ilusión que ve en el alma una sustancia inmaterial, no es negar su existencia, sino al contrario comenzar a reconocer la complejidad, la riqueza, la insondable profundidad de la herencia genética y cultural, así como de la experiencia personal, consciente o no, que en conjunto constituyen el ser que somos, único e irrecusable testigo de sí mismo.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

Better a gringo than a dead man," the lieutenant sighed, smoke escaping his nostrils. "Barely! But, yes, hell yes.

The other thing he railed against, after 'Mexican time' and lame excuses, was bad teeth. Mexicans could not afford bad teeth if they expected gringos to take them seriously.

Every Mexican was a diluted Indian, invaded by milk like the coffee in Cayetana's cup.

They couldn't sweat him, no matter what they did. Hey, they were gringos—no way were they going to do the kind of things to him the Mexican cops and the Federales would have done. Every Mexican gangster knows this—Los Yunaites is the land of human rights

In the annals of Parisian cultural history, the episode is still known as "the scandal of L'Age d'or.") A week later, Police Chief Chiappe closed the theatre; the film was censored, and remained so for fifty years.