Quotes About Culture

I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on.

Cooking is about imbibing different cultures and putting them in a plate on the table.

We Chinese use a lot of ginger and green onions to flavor dishes but not to overpower them. Westerners have this misconception that we eat the ginger and green onion, but we leave those on the plate.

We are a bottom-up culture, and we need a communications platform that can facilitate that.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school.

Platform flip-flops. Those were crazy. Wait, I don't think they were ever fashionable. But we saw them everywhere.

If you come to my house in Kolkata, it is full of gold and platinum discs.

In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.

I love the breakfast culture - I opt for the French platter.

I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be very Sofia Vergara, too, so it's really cool.

For years, I've felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don't play basketball, I can't dance, and I'd rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.

The Bulls are first class in every way: great people, organization, culture, and a great place to play basketball.

There's a rich family culture in South Central. The block that I grew up on, all the kids were best friends. They hung out at each other's houses. I can knock on the person's house two doors down and grab some food and just hang out or go into the backyard and play basketball when they're not there.

I never thought that I would ever go over to China for any reason - then to be able to go over there and play basketball, embracing the culture.

It's not just about going to play football abroad: it's a chance to live and work in a fantastic city like Barcelona.

I don't play golf.

There are a lot of hip-hoppers who play golf.

In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

I played Othello at RADA - blacked up. I didn't know it was going to be offensive now!

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

My father was a steelworker who'd come over from Abruzzi, in Italy. He played in the band and he encouraged me to be a musician.