Quotes About Culture

For 'Dum Maro Dum,' I had a diction tutor, as I had to get rid of my Hyderabadi Hindi and learn Goan Hindi. It wasn't easy, because these two kinds of Hindi were mutually incompatible. I had to unlearn one kind of Hindi and then learn a new kind.

You can't compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.

American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

In Brazil, there isn't just one beauty ideal. There's a lot of emphasis on a woman's natural beauty - but of course, Brazilian women love expressing their beauty through makeup.

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.

Some of the worst elements of Guyland rest on the twin pillars of men's silence and women's compliance.

I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so

...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.