Quotes About Culture

Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

I don't really have a bucket list, but if I did, one entry would be to dust off my college Russian and spend a big chunk of a year reading, or trying to read, 'War and Peace' as it was meant to be read, in Russian, with all that rumbly rocks-on-rocks poetry inherent to the language.

There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do.

I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.

There is nothing inherently conservative in the ancient world.

According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.

Every Frenchie has inherited their own way of making ratatouille, usually just as maman used to make. Well, my mum never made one, so I consider that my licence to make mine as I please.

My grandfather is from Burma and while the tanned skin and Cleopatra eyes skipped my genetic make-up, I inherited the full hairy gene.

Multilingualism in our nation extends back to several millennia. This multilingualism is an asset, a heritage we have inherited, and is, in fact, a resource we deeply cherish.

'Buguri' is a romantic film, and I play Ganesh's love interest. Initially, I had just hoped to do one Kannada film since I'm a Kannadiga. Now, I'm even learning to converse in Kannada.

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly. So no particular language is in the genes. But what might be in the genes is the ability to acquire language.

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is the American experience.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.

The inner core of my being is Carnatic music.

I'm an inner city man, born and bred.

The music I make is for the inner city.

I've seen that, over the centuries, India has still got its passion and its soul. Wherever you go, people have such inner strength and beauty.

Up until the 17th century, Germany was far more advanced, but then everything devastated by the 30 Years War began to fall apart... The culture is not innocent.

The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.

Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.