Quotes About Culture

Every time I take my teams abroad, the players always behave.

Don't forget I'm not English. English people maybe don't behave like we Europeans do.

Culturally we're shown an impossible fantasy of how women should present themselves, how they should behave with men.

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

I'd say I'm quite well behaved! It's just the way I've been brought up, really.

I behaved the way I was taught to behave: like a woman in the company of men. If you behaved aggressively in the company of men, they wouldn't accept you.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

Bad behaviour on TV is quite nauseating and putting off.

Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.

Beijing is my favorite city in China.

I need to open a restaurant, a big soul food restaurant in Beijing!

Sometimes, being a girl away from home - it gets to you.

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

I want to get my degree and that's something I take pride in, especially being a man of color.

We are taught these days that being famous is more important than actually doing something.

I'm a big star in Asia, but I never think about being famous.

I think part of being human is jokes.

I was born in London, and my family is here. America is an interesting place, but it's incredibly different culturally. It doesn't take long being there before I want to get back.

Beirut is where I was born and raised.

When I go to Beirut, I don't drive. It's traumatizing to drive there.

I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile.