Quotes About Culture

To be an immigrant Is to be solitary in the midst of millions.

Ara és l'hora de dir, ara és l'hora de recordar que el poble persisteix en tots nosaltres, en cada un de nosaltres, i que tot allò que hem fet i tot allò que hem desitjat és l'essència mateixa del poble indestructible.

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

Was everything redneck actually mystical?

Country music has always sort of been country music.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

Sigur c? lumea româneasc? este cum este ÅŸi are miturile ei fundamentale, care nu sunt MioriÅ£a ÅŸi MeÅŸterul Manole, ci capra vecinului ÅŸi povestea din iad, nu? În cazanul românilor, unde niciun român nu iese la suprafa?? fiindc?-l trag ceilalÅ£i de picioare. AÅŸa c? diavolii ÅŸomeaz?.

Many French women (moi included) believe that the right day to cut is on a full moon.

The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.

French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

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

Ever since that day in Chicago, whenever I see such scenes, I think of a quote by Billat-Savarin, the eighteenth-century 'modern' gastronome, well known for his writings and meditations on the physiology of taste and for his famous dictum 'We are what we eat.' But he also wrote even more revealingly: 'The destiny of a nation depends on how it feeds itself.

French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

Historija radi Å¡irokim potezima, a fresco. Historija slika dekorativno!

Kakva sablasna rije?: frajle! A ipak! Koliko je dubokih tajna pokopano u toj tako vulgarnoj rije?i, koju panonski foringaši izgovaraju, skupljaju?i pri tome pljuva?ku pod jezikom ga?enja i moralnoga prezira!

Unaware that our culture has subverted our faith, we lose a place from which to judge our own culture

Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine?

My skin is soft and smooth and the color reminds me of rain-drenched earth. But it's as if the darkness of it keeps Ma from noticing my assets: curly hair, a round face that makes babies smile, deep dimples in both cheeks, big eyes that notice details other people miss. I like my face, even if Ma doesn't. I resemble Baba, and he's got presence.