Quotes About Cultural

The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and hid in the bush as the time of initiation approached.

Nobody criticizes The Rock. Nobody criticizes Randy Couture when he goes over and did 'Expendables 3' or anybody who's a crossover.

The old image of Tonto and the Lone Ranger was one that we, as Indian people, didn't care much for; it was kind of a second-class citizen.

The biggest gap there is in America is not economic; the gap is spiritual and cultural.

I've crossed many cultural and gender barriers as a woman.

Across generations, the torch-bearers of Carnatic music have mastered the art form of connection.

I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.

My father worked as a mechanical draftsman at Mazagaon Docks and is a Catholic. My mum was a Muslim, so my parents broke quite a few rules to get married.

Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.

I'm glad I did South films because I feel they have moulded me. They are really loud and are in a different language, so it's not easy.

I did drama school in Delhi. I am glad I studied in a school where cultural activities were significant.

There are about 250 curators in the world who keep their eyes open to choose films from around the globe for festivals. I am one of them.

It was a big step for me to take, going away from my family to go and play in a different culture, and I understand why people don't do it.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

One good thing about being brought up with Chinese food from another country means that you're not a purist and you will accept deviation.

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.

Culture and the state — one should not deceive oneself over this — are antagonists: the ?cultural state? is merely a modern idea. The one lives off the other, the one thrives at the expense of the other. All great cultural epochs are epochs of political decline: that which is great in the cultural sense has been unpolitical, even anti-political.

That idyllic shepherd of modern man is only a counterfeit, the totality of cultural illusions which he counts as nature.

Funny how "I love you" never sounded the same in different languages. It lost or gained power. In English, it sounded so plain. In Spanish, it became a promise.

It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.

You can always tell a man's nationality by introducing him to a beautiful girl. An Englishman shakes her hand; a Frenchman kisses her hand; an American asks her for a date; and a Russian wires Moscow for instructions.

Now that I'm older and wiser, and I know what that word means and what it possesses... I'm like, 'Yes, I am a mahu and you should look up to me!'

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.