Quotes About Culture

'Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.

Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.

Recently I read that half the world or more has read 'The Lord of The Rings,' but then I found out that something like 75 per cent of the world knows the 'Tintin' books.

I've started to fall for New Orleans recently. There's real life there, if you know what I mean.

The culinary world is a fascinating place that has been influenced over the centuries by culture, religion, fashion, war, art, science and, more recently, globalisation.

Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.

The people in China love their snooker. We get a fantastic reception when we go over there.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.

I think Chennaiites are the best because the city has a receptive audience.

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.

I was raised cooking my grandmother's food, my mom's recipes.

I love the food of Karnataka and all the side dishes I make at home are recipes I learnt here.

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

My wife was born and raised in Italy until she was about 9, and then she came to America, and her mom was a great cook, and they have great recipes, and whenever her mom would come into town, we would have all these friends just randomly showing up at our house, and eventually we figured out why. They wanted Mama's cooking.

Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.

It's very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that still permits both the giver and recipient to be completely free.

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

We want to reclaim Faygo from the Juggalos.

It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information.

I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art.