Quotes About Culture

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong.

I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.

It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!

Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.

We've got to change the culture of riding the T. It is a civic space for community conversations, but everyone's always really quiet on there.

Whenever I go to Odisha, I make it a point to converse in Odia.

At home we always converse in Oriya.

I feel the world is over-saturated with products, and it isn't about what you're wearing as much as it is about what message you are trying to convey.

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American.

Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.

My abuela was an incredible cook.

Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally.

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

I'm happy that just about on every other show there's a Latino somewhere present, and we're not all the cooks anymore.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

It's okay, it's cool to be Indian and there are cool people that are Indian and doing really well. It's okay to be brown and cool.

I don't think having a conservative mind in 2012 is a cool thing.

It's a cool thing to see Polynesians - there's not too many of us, period - but especially doing well in American sports. It's pretty cool.

One of the coolest things is going to another country and learning their culture and learning how to be a grownup.

Growing up in the '90s was the coolest thing to me.

It is a pleasure to cooperate with Egyptian cinema.

If you don't cop the ZO2s, you're not a baller.