Quotes About Culture

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.

The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

I listen mostly to classical music.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

I watch mostly every martial arts movie... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation.

I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

My father Baldev Pathak was a Punjabi, and mother, Dina Pathak, a Kathiawadi Gujarati.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

Both my mother-in-law and Rajiv made it easy for me. I feel very Indian and am not conscious of being an Italian in India.

India is my motherland.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

I'm eulogised by a lot of men, but they wouldn't take me home to meet their mothers.

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers.

When my mother read 'The Joy Luck Club', she was always complaining to me how she had to tell her friends that, no, she was not the mother or any of the mothers in the book.

I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history.