Quotes About Culture

I love cheese. It intensified when I moved to France. It felt like my cheese shop lady was my dealer because every week I'd say, 'I need this cheese, I need that cheese', and she'd cut me enough for the week but I'd finish a whole piece in one go.

Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.

Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor laid the groundwork for us as Indian-Americans. How can we add our story to their groundwork is the question.

There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.

My parents, or Asian parents in general, they're like, 'You should be a doctor, a lawyer, or a banker' - all that's laid out. As a kid that's what I bought into, which is why I ended up going the corporate route initially.

Aussies are really laid back, and so are Californians.

I'm interested in why people talk like they do. Like Boston Irish. It's so laid back. Why is that?

Hyderabad used to be this sweet laid back town, everything was accepted. Coming from Chennai I thought it was a town.

I made 'Ricki Lake' as a big love show for the American culture: big jars of mayo and ketchup and industrial stuff and capitalism, which I celebrate, because I believe that the criticism comes with love.

When I was about 10 years old, the 'Ricki Lake show' aired in Israel, and it was the first time I was exposed to American reality culture.

Dennis Lindsey - if there's anyone who's most responsible for the winning culture in Salt Lake, it's him.

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

The land of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, and Subash Chandra Bose has mesmerised me. I am really happy to meet such lovely people, good and kindhearted people.

You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people.

I feel very, very French, especially when I land in France.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

Fishing has been part of our culture since we landed here.

I have introduced my daughter to the literary classics and landmark Bengali films. I want her to be well-versed in English but not at the cost of Bengali.

I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.