Quotes About Culture

I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence.

If I were to have seen more people that looked like me - because I'm Palestinian and Lebanese - and talked like me and acted like me, I probably would have had a lot more hope knowing that I wasn't alone. I really hope that this show, 'Champions,' gives that to people.

My race was never talked about until I married into this family.

The Irish are great talkers and incredibly friendly, it's just in the DNA.

People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

My English might not be good enough to talk politics but there is no difficulty if we are talking about football.

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.

My sister and brother and I grew up speaking both languages - French to our father and English to our mother. But when we three kids are talking to each other, we use English.

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

I grew up listening to all kinds of music. When I came up, you would hear people like Marvin Gaye talking about Sarah Vaughan. You would go to a show and see Ella Fitzgerald performing the music of the Beatles.

The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.

I'm a South Asian female that talks about relationships and periods and dating and all these things.

The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia. To me, that's a crossover because Spanish is not a language that everybody talks.

My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.