Quotes About Culture

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

I'm from Hollywood. That's where we make movies and TV shows... I'm not from down here in men-fus ten-uh-see, okay?

Most of the TV shows I've done have all been in the U.S.

I'm obsessed with trash TV. I love horrible TV. shows. It's the white trash in me, you know?

I've always loved English and loved English music and TV shows.

Some people say I sound Australian. I guess it's all down to Miss Matthews, who taught me English when I was growing up in Dar es Salaam. Nearly everyone in Denmark speaks English, and TV shows are only ever subtitled, not dubbed.

As far as TV shows are concerned, I would love to do a travel show.

Being British, you see a lot of Australian movies and TV shows.

TV shows about TV were taboo for a while.

Korean, yes, I am now fluent in Korean. I was not always. When I got to Korea, I was constantly put on TV shows not knowing what was going on. So that forced me to learn Korean so I could stop looking like an idiot.

Many TV shows these days have rural flavor, but in terms of content, they are all family politics.

I hardly watch any Indian TV shows and prefer watching a good film or reading over it any day.

I frankly don't watch TV shows that much.

I am a fan of Pakistani TV shows and the simplistic way in which they are made.

The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own.

I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

We're not best in the world at burritos and tacos. What we're best in the world at is building a people culture, sourcing really great ingredients, cooking according to classic cooking techniques, understanding the corresponding economic model and how to tweak that and drive that and provide this really great, new fast food experience.

Probably 60% of my followers are from Argentina, so I tweet more in Spanish.

I came out of a culture when there wasn't tweeting and everyone with a camera in their hands. I didn't grow up with it, so I'm not always thinking about it, but there have been times when I looked over, and I saw that someone was recording my conversation.

For me, personally, I'm usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.

I don't like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don't like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that's almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it.