Quotes About Culture

I love the way Indian weddings are hosted. We have kept everything traditional - except our engagement ceremony.

We are all trained by Disney to believe that the wedding is the finish line, but the wedding is just another starting line. In light of this fact, we should quit the huge, fancy, debt-inducing weddings.

Food trucks are an essential part of people's days. They are important to the fabric of feeding people, like hotel chefs cooking breakfasts or for weddings.

I have danced to 'Kaanta Lagaa' at sangeet ceremonies and weddings. Weddings are happy occasions and I like being part of their happiness.

Weddings to me are largely an ego-centric waste of time and money.

I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.

Much of my music is inspired by what I heard at picnics and weddings and bar mitzvahs.

I haven't had any formal training, but I guess dance comes naturally to us - people from the north. See how much we dance at weddings.

If you think of human experience as a pie, then the wedge Hollywood is reflecting now is getting smaller and smaller.

We must demand that blacks work, stop making babies out of wedlock, and raise their children.

In our society, it's an unwritten law that you can't have a child out of wedlock. I am not in agreement with that, but I am expected to follow it as I am a part of this society.

India has a cross section of audience whose cultural levels are varied. So where there are takers for Dabangg,' there are also audience for A Wednesday' and Peepli Live.'

My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

I still enjoy a wee game of poker now and then, but I'm not very good, and being Scottish, I don't like to lose that much money!

Audiences are a wee bit more chatty in New York than in London.

From a child growing up in the U.K., I used to listen until the wee hours of the night to talk radio.

I'm still very much a Northerner. I try to have chips and gravy twice a week.

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

The Batiste family is a large musical family in Louisiana, out in New Orleans. People go to New Orleans, and if they go to any club, four days out of the week I guarantee you that you will find a Batiste playing in the ensemble.

I think it would be hard to find an American who, during their first week at Cambridge didn't genuinely feel like it was fairy tale.

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.

Chicken... I am a black man, we love our chicken, but I don't eat it anymore. My genotype means I don't process it as well as other things. But I eat lamb twice a week; that is a super food for me.

I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.