Quotes About Cultural

She spoke Basque, which is a language which rarely makes any impression upon the brains of any other race, so that a man may hear it as often and as long as he likes, but never afterwards be able to recall a single syllable of it.

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

we're a "lower order of people" in one breath we are damned for being "unassailable" and the next there is fear that we'll assimilate. ... If we are educated, the complaint is that we will cease being the "ideal servant".

La discusión de mis funciones corporales por parte de una completa extraña no me incomodó. Había en Maya Fritts una naturalidad que yo nunca había visto, y que desde luego era muy distinta del puritanismo de los bogotanos, capaces de pasarse

T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment is that we sort out the science from the culture before opinions become inflamed.

As a result, gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which "sexed nature" or "a natural sex" is produced and established as "prediscursive," prior to culture, a politically neutral surface on which culture acts

Indians can identify with the Indian sensibilities, and rather than taking something from foreign films, it is always good to make a movie which has been enjoyed by a certain audience or in a certain part of India and make it available to a larger audience.

I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.

As far as the industries go, in the North, they think I'm a South Indian actress; down South, I've always been thought of as a Bombay girl. I guess it's sort of an identity crisis, even though I'd like to belong to all the industries.

I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.

Most of my friends, growing up, were upper-middle-class white kids, so it was a different reality at home both culturally and linguistically. It created a lot of insecurities for me, but it also did a lot of amazing things that I didn't know were happening at the time.

There's a difference between being culturally insensitive - being insensitive towards a culture - and being insensitive.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions.

I started off playing the harmonium and singing. By the time I was eight or so, my interest moved to Western instrumental music.

My whole thing with EDM is, if you have integrity and yet you regress in how you've been as an artist, there's something not quite right there. If you're just here to get paid, I find that very culturally indifferent.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

mudanças sociais e culturais duradouras são obra de pessoas comuns que fazem coisas extraordinárias.

Toute forme artistique, en Europe, dépasse les limites de sa patrie originelle, que celle-ci soit la Catalogne (peut-être centre de dispersion d'un premier art roman), l'Île-de-France, la Lombardie, la Florence du Quattrocento, la Venise du Titien ou le Paris de l'impressionnisme.

La civilisation musulmane, comme l'occidentale, est une civilisation dérivée, du second degré, pour reprendre la terminologie d'Alfred Weber. Elle ne s'est pas édifiée à partir d'une table rase, mais sur le tuf de cette civilisation bigarrée et très vivante qui l'a précédée dans le Proche-Orient.

Historically, polarization and populism--and their close traveling companions, extremism and authoritarianism--emerge from the politics of cultural despair.

When I announced to my family that I wanted to add an American name, they reacted with their usual laughter. Never one to let mockery or good judgment stand in my way, I proceeded to ask for suggestions. My father suggested "Fifi." Had I had a special affinity for French poodles or been considering a career in prostitution, I would've

And Iranians never forget. You can't say my Aunt Jila's name without someone saying, "You mean the one who burned her rice?" That happened before I was born and even I know about it.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.