Quotes About Culture

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.

When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they can't believe it. I mean, they can understand how the kid left to his own devices might do that, but they can't imagine that parents would allow that to happen.

My wife's Italian, so pasta is a go-to for my eldest - he loves a good pasta. My middle child is a scavenger, he'll just eat whatever.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

The NFL is not a national pastime. It's a national addiction.

I feel like the D.C. streets just love Gucci Mane. He's like a hood pastor.

My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

I listened to gospel music because that was just our culture, you know? My parents are pastors.

Nothing could be more French than pastry.

Those Frenchies may know their pastry, but you can't beat a bit of British cheese.

A lot of the Jews I met in Israel, almost all of them are secular. They get turned off by their religion, in the same way that Americans get turned off Christianity by people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson.

I'm a product of Pat Riley and his culture.

The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat.

Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

I would love to act in Bengali movies, but the work culture here is pathetic.

Russian is a really hard language - but I've got my own personal teacher. He's been really patient.

The U.K. and Europe in general seem to be a lot more patient. The U.S. are expecting 'joke joke joke joke joke joke joke.' They don't actually sit and listen to you.

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.

We live in a very masculine society, a very patriarchal society, still. So we also have the benefit of the experience of that society. We're not coming from 'women's world' into filmmaking, we're coming from 'the world.'

To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency.