Quotes About Culture

When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western.

I like New York, man - I ain't gonna front. The only thing I probably don't like about New York is that, coming from the South, people aren't hospitable. You tell somebody 'Hi,' and they look at you like you're out your freaking mind.

Today, youths say 'Hi and Bye' even to their parents. Instead, they should touch parents' feet as a mark of respect.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

I can't hide where I grew up or the flavors I grew up on.

I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

The restaurant industry in New York in the '80s was a good place to hide out if you had issues.

In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

My parents were in high school and college in the '80s, so let's just say I've heard some stuff, man. We listen to a lot of music and watch lots of great films, but the real context they provide from that era is about politics.

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

A flourishing higher education sector is critical to a nation's economy and culture.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

'Ebony's Power 100 list highlights African-Americans who exemplify brilliance in the fields of entertainment, arts, business and others.

Using food as a way of understanding empire is highly effective. Food knows no barriers of race, gender or even time.

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

English culture is highly literary-based.

There's a culture inside the NHS that is highly paternalistic. You know, 'We give them the service and they are grateful.' We have to move to shared decision-making.

The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?'

I make no apology about being a hillbilly.

I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.

Growing up in Beverly Hills, everyone was Jewish, and I always secretly wanted to be.

You can take the girl out of Beverly Hills, but you can't take the Beverly Hills out of the girl.

Generally, we tend to believe that royalty is only for mainstream Hindi commercial cinema music and maybe some popular ghazal singer or pop singer but we never think that classical music is played at so many places.

I speak Hindi with a Punjabi accent, not a Haryanvi accent.