Quotes About Culture

At first, I was only interested in music, but I spent so much time in the clubs and seeing fashions change. So naturally, I developed an interest in it.

I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it.

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

I do a very good impersonation of an American - I went to high school here - but I've spent most of my life in Russia.

I have spent quite some time in Malaysia, as my mother is from there. And shooting there was a great experience.

As a new Googler, Porat spent some time learning the words that describe the Googley people who work in those buildings.

I've done a bunch of consulting; I've actually spent time in Singapore, England, Denmark, all over.

I never thought a film about a sperm donor could work with audiences in India, but it did.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

London was a spice mecca. The first recipe for curry in English was actually published in 1747.

A lot of people are still very afraid of spice. A lot of them don't know how to use the full potential of spice. I hope to make them more comfortable using spice and able to add it to their cooking.

The food culture that has most impressed me is Oman's. I learned to make an amazing spice mix that they rub into goat and fish meat, and ate the best flatbreads.

I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.

The first album I bought was the Spice Girls, ha ha.

Me and my mom are pretty cool. My mother's Caribbean, and she gets a little spicy, and I get a little spicy back.

Louisiana was as close to South Asia as the United States could get: it had spicy food, humidity, giant cockroaches, and a corrupt government.

I'm always looking for a way to get some spice into my cooking but, generally, the French don't like spicy food.