Quotes About Culture

Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.

My father taught me to play the sitar when I was seven years old. He and his elder disciples oversaw my teaching from the beginning, looking after my scale work, the poor things.

I had to learn Odissi dance and it is a very difficult discipline.

It was tough coaching Australia. They were so set in their ways because they have been the right ways - but the culture needed changing because the discipline was shoddy.

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.

I never went to any disco, I didn't know anything about dance.

I watched 'Disco Dancer' when I was very young. I have always loved its songs.

We weren't that big fans of Disco.

I think there is sort of a disconnect in this country between people that served in the military, understand the culture of it and what it is, and the people who only know what they see on the news and read - and they don't really get a feel for the culture.

It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.

There is so much to discover in Dubai.

Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.

Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts.

My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, different food. When I was 18 in 1977, I went to Europe with my accordion and discovered the pleasure of entertaining people.

Americans have discovered fear.

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

There is so much discrimination towards women in Haryana.

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.

Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed.

Without a doubt, my sexuality was something that I just never discussed, especially in the 1950s.

I don't think I have tried to give any message through 'Mulk.' But I have put certain things on the table which are usually discussed in the living rooms, not in our cinema.

Beauty has always been an element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation.