Quotes About Culture

Czech people are quite hard to get to know, in my opinion.

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

In the beginning of my career, I read an article about the reason that men always look five years younger than women is because they shave.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family.

In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what language players speak or if they eat tacos, rice, or sauerkraut. They don't care if they're white, black, or brown.

To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.

Asian-Americans often struggle to be good sons and daughters, but it's ultimately your life. In the end, you have to find what you want.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Before I modeled, I never thought I was beautiful. Even right now, I don't think I'm beautiful. I think it's my personality that makes my beauty different and unique. If you look in the past, Chinese people have always considered things like big eyes, pointy nose, or big lips beautiful. I had the same thoughts as a child watching movies.

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history.

You have to be willing to totally immerse yourself in China in order to have in-depth exposure to China.

Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture, so I think we're actually utilizing comic book heroes in a much more in-depth way than before. They have such potential, and I think we're maximizing the potential.

My in-laws are from Bhagalpur district in Bihar and they are great devotees of Hanuman.

In the locker room, and when I'm with my friends, we use racial slurs... What I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what's appropriate and inappropriate.

The dress hat took a nosedive after the dashing JFK showed up at his inauguration bareheaded. Suddenly, a chapeau was no longer de rigueur for any man leaving the house.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

MP is like my second home. It's a culturally inclined state.

My family has always been inclined to any form of art.

It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.