Quotes About Culture

Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.

You have to respect the culture you are cooking in, yes, but you have to respect the palate you are cooking for, too, and you have to adjust to that palate.

I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.

I definitely have my Palestinian gene. I love to play host.

I'm Muslim. I'm Palestinian. I'm a woman in a hijab.

While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.

You have to engage with the current palette of the world, and what that sounds like.

I could not think higher of Governor Palin. She is a force of nature and has inspired a generation of women to really get actively involved in politics and, more importantly, take their culture back and take their country back.

Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.

When I am in India, I feel pampered. However, when I am In Georgia, I am on my own, as I have to cook and do things all by myself. However, that gives me an independent feeling.

When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.

I listen to a lot of Pandora. I listen to the Hot 97 app.

My father bought a house in Panther Hollow. We were the first Italians in the neighborhood.

If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

Could I see myself with a British boyfriend? Absolutely. The way they wear their pants is so cute. Guys don't do it in America. Their style is cute. I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.

It's interesting that people think that pants are masculine. Pants are pants.

When we just hang around, our pants are always sagging.

Te Papa Museum is brilliant.

The same kids listening to Papa Roach will listen to an Xzibit CD.

We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.

Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they wouldn't sell papers.

I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

I don't want people abroad to see India like it's shown in a film like 'Slumdog Millionaire.' We are at par with the world.

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.