Quotes About Culture

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

There is an attitude that Okinawans have about Japan itself. There is a resentment.

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

Indians were frequently off their reservations.

When I went to Standing Rock, it opened my mind, as did going to Indian reservations and speaking to kids about music and arts.

I was raised in a normal Gujarati style with all the restrictions and reservations.

Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today's common culture.

The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.

Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s.

Being English, we're polite and reserved, we don't express our opinions; we're very private people.

My mother and I were alike in one crucial respect: We may have been Russian by birth, but we were English in spirit. She was intensely reserved and private, and seldom showed what she was feeling.

My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house. As it happened, while my father was the ambassador in Portugal, the ambassador's residence had a piano, and so I started learning how to play it at the age of five.

My Hyderabad home is an extension to my family's Delhi residence.

I am a permanent legal resident of this country, I was born in Korea; my parents came to America for a better life for our family, I've lived here nearly my whole life, and even though I consider myself through and through Korean and American, I guess when it comes down to it, anyone can take away my identity. It doesn't belong to me.

For 'Shiddat,' I knew I had to look, feel and sound like a seasoned resident of Paris.

I want to live in a Britain whose residents are determined to speak English.

My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.

The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.

In America, people will look past a criminal record. In England, they try and shut you up.

Caracas was a crazy place in the early Nineties. For instance, when I was 11 years old, I pierced my ear. No big deal, right? But everyone was so scandalised that they shut down the school.

When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and they were 'Hello' and 'Shut up.'

Americans are shy about the body.

I come from a place where we're not that shy about our bodies.

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.