Quotes About Culture

It is everyone's story. We are ashamed of our native language, be it Punjabi or Urdu. If you make mistakes while speaking your native languages, no one will say anything. But if you say one word incorrect in English, people will treat it like a crime.

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

I feel Urdu and Punjabi are quite similar and therefore, I mostly make my songs in Punjabi.

When I was offered 'Abhijaan,' I didn't know any Bengali. But Satyajit Ray insisted, saying my character spoke a mixture of Bhojpuri, Hindi, Urdu and Bengali. I agreed only because he had faith in me.

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

I want to learn how to speak Urdu. I find it very interesting and soothing to ears. It is very poetic too.

I have observed Afghani people and their Urdu is not as chaste as it should be and that reflects in the way they speak. Their native language is Pashtun.

Bengali is like Urdu. If you cannot get the pronunciation right, you spoil the flavor of it all.

During the making of 'Abdullah' I asked the assistant director to teach me Hindi; he taught me to read the script too. He also taught me Urdu. Now I can sign autographs in Hindi, Urdu and can write my name in Tamil.

I was fascinated with Urdu ever since I was a child.

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

The society of women is the foundation of good manners.

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.