Quotes About Culture

During Holi, my mom prepares lovely puran polis, and everyone in my family makes an exception in their diet plan to include this delicious food item!

French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself.

Whenever we go to different places fans in each country prepare something before we go on stage for our encore.

When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.

Preparing foods from other Jewish communities is broadening. It's interesting to sample the foods of other Jewish communities and see what they developed.

New York is essentially a bazaar, not a Presbyterian church.

Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding of America.

Hands have a major presence in flamenco, and when your hands are decorated, it adds power.

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.

You know how it works here. If you don't have the presence of Bollywood, people won't recognize the sport. Even an established game like hockey had to include some Bollywood tinge to it.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Every generation brings its own presentation of what hip-hop is to them.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.

The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.

In my writing, I want to address all communities, you know. I've spent many years talking about Chicano culture, Chicano history, and at the same time, I've also been in many communities and presented my work in many communities, in many classrooms, and that's where my vision is and my delight is and my heart is.

Presenting the American songbook as a living, breathing entity that's expanding all the time is very important.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

There's the fine line between presenting your culture and learning about other cultures so it becomes global.

Back in Israel, I would spend much effort and plenty of money on presents when I went abroad, even if it was only for two days.

What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.

From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest presents New Orleans in one place.