Quotes About Culture

Growing up in the north, it was natural for me to absorb the Punjabiness around me. I like their way of living, their large-heartedness. I know no other way.

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

I would love to take a cooking class from Gandhi. Maybe I could teach him how to cook, and he could teach me his message. I wouldn't mind learning how to make couscous from scratch from a North African woman, either.

I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

I've been to North Africa many times.

The Jewish exodus from North Africa, in the late nineteen-fifties and the nineteen-sixties, brought hundreds of thousands of Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian Jews to France.

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.

My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.

The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.

In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.

We live in the United States. British settlers founded the first colony in North America. And English is our language.

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.

I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.

We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of Women's Art. However, I believe Latinos are best served by displaying their art next to the art of other groups, particularly North American, European, and even Asian artists.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.

Barbecue is to North Carolina as the hot dog is to New York.

Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.

My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways.

I like good Mexican food, and there's not a lot of that around North Carolina.

I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina.

Yeah, I'm from North Carolina, but grew up in Eastern Europe, and became a woman in London.

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.