Quotes About Culture

Having lived in America and France, I've been on both sides of the picky-eating divide.

Though Suparna is a Malayali, she has spent a large part of her life in Mumbai. She's a Mumbai girl. In fact, I saw the real Mumbai through Suparna's eyes. Of course, I knew Mumbai before I got to know Suparna. But it was Suparna who showed me sides to Mumbai I had never seen.

There are lots of different sides to Brooklyn. It has so much character.

I can identify with Riho because I was the talent that didn't speak the language in Japan. I'm very excited for the fans to kind of build a relationship with her because it's going to take work from both sides to understand one another.

Seeing different sides of life, seeing different sides of society, that's what London's all about. When I was young my mum always tried to make me do that.

In a matter of weeks I developed gray hair on the lower half of the sides of my head. In my culture, people refer to this phenomenon as the extreme result of depression.

I have Irish on both sides of my family.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

Art is a primal need - even under siege, especially under siege.

I grew up listening to loads of afrobeats; my grandad's Sierra Leonean, so that was always around. My mum loves those kind of beats, too.

My father was born and raised in Sierra Leone, and my mom was from Bermuda.

The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

In the office, you kind of lose sight. You have to go to the restaurants to see what's really happening.

I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.

Fashion week is not an episode of 'Girls' or 'Friends,' where I'm OK that there is not a black person in sight because I honestly believe these characters don't come into contact with - therefore don't have - any black friends. No, in the case of Fashion week, it feels wrong.

I can empathise with different cultural expressions and am open to things that seem strange at first sight.

The sights you can find here in Paris are second to none.

Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing.

Although I have my sights set globally, I'm from Canada.

I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.