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Quotes About Culture

Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
We always do kinda like the bare bones representation or variation of the voice and drums, which is what we feel is the foundation or backbone of rapping and hip hop.
~ Black Thought
It seems that the more we travel, the more we want flavour and variation in our food - and the bolder it is, the more addictive those flavours will be.
~ John Torode
People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers. It's not just about food. Eating something as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is spiritual and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time; it's food for the soul.
~ Gil Marks
My grandmother got me recordings of the 'Goldberg Variations,' in addition to the 'Brandenburg Concertos,' the Mozart string quartets and Beethoven's 'Seventh Symphony.'
~ Chris Thile
Biryani is a layered rice dish spotted throughout the Middle East and South Asia in countless variations depending on the region.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.
~ Debi Mazar
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
~ Daniel Barenboim
India is full of varied cultures that have introduced different kinds of folk tunes to us.
~ Tulsi Kumar
For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer.
~ Moby
There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
I love musical comedy; I love comedy in general, and I have varied taste in terms of books, film, theatre, and culture.
~ Tom Kitt
Russia is very big and very varied. People are different in different regions.
~ Sergey Galitsky
I'm glad that nowadays people are aware of varied dance genres, thanks to reality TV dance shows.
~ Prabhu Deva
I like a lot of food. I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys. Vancouver has a lot of variety, with pizza, hot dogs, Italian, Indian, seafood - a great combination of culture.
~ Godfrey Gao
Indian films are like our food or our sense of dress or our languages: there's a great variety, and it changes every 100 miles, but there is something in common, a national Indian essence, that binds them all together.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.
~ Penn Jillette
We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.
~ Neil Tennant
I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys. Vancouver has a lot of variety, with pizza, hot dogs, Italian, Indian, seafood - a great combination of culture.
~ Godfrey Gao
The greatest food city in the world is New York City, just in terms of depth and breadth, variety, size, infrastructure.
~ Andrew Zimmern
God has a team. It's made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures. He never wants you to make your distinction, your history, or your background so precious to you that it messes up His team.
~ Tony Evans
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.
~ John Lithgow
When you here a conjunto and you hear another conjunto, you think it's like a continuation of the first. It's all the same, same, same. There's no variety, just the same music.
~ Compay Segundo
Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.
~ Jason Mraz