Quotes About Culture

Above all, I am a theatre person, from the National School of Drama, I want to promote theatre.

I try to promote Indian locations in my films.

The programs on Public Broadcasting help promote our state to the world and educate our people.

I've never been into artists promoting drugs.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

A lot of white men in the music industry are promoting and participating in black culture in a way that is pretty careless. They want the currency of blackness, but they don't want the brunt that comes along with that.

WWE has always been committed to promoting wrestling talent in India.

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody is aware of those, but Lima is something that people should discover - especially our food.

There is not a single international foreign TV channel that is doing something other than promotion of the values of the country that it is broadcasting from.

Even when I speak English to my parents, I'll say an English word differently to my Chinese parents and friends than I do to my English-speaking friends - you know, I'll pronounce 'McDonald's' differently, because it feels right, and that's what I'm used to.

My last name is difficult to pronounce. It's Toussant.

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.

Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'

I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture.

There's still, dare I say it, a cultural propaganda against the Irish, that we are, as women, 'feisty.' I hate that word.

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.

I have grown fond of the food which is made in Barkas, and I try to go there at least once a week. Some of the food joints don't even have a proper name, but it's so different compared to rest of the places in Hyderabad.

Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.

The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.

Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.