Quotes About Culture

The fact that more than 50 percent of Americans have an immediate family member either currently or formerly incarcerated tells you a lot about just how defining a feature of American culture incarceration has become.

What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

I think comedy tells a lot; you can tell what people think by what they laugh at.

At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.

You can get a good handle on a company's culture before you even get inside the building. For example, when companies say, 'We value our employees' but have reserved parking spots, a private cafeteria, and over-the-top offices for the executives, that tells you more than any PR spin.

I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'

History is about who tells it.

I don't think I'd want to be a comedian today if I saw it on the telly. I wouldn't think it was a thing for weirdoes and drop-outs; I'd think it was a thing for squares who wanted to be famous.

I don't like 'cool telly.'

I want to watch telly that reflects the world I see.

There's so much to see and do in Austrailia, but a lot of it is outside so I've ben immersing myself in their telly.

When I first started on telly, I used to get quite a lot of fan mail from Indians saying it's great that an Indian is on!

Since I am originally from Hyderabad, I speak Telugu fluently.

While I can't speak Telugu, I do understand the language.

I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.

My formative years were not spent in Hyderabad, so I can only understand Telugu, but I love the culture.

I can speak Tamil fluently, and the sentence structures in Telugu are quite similar.