Quotes About Culture

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.

There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

Tennis is a big thing in the Czech Republic.

When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.

Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben - an incredible tennis player - loved jazz. Jazz musicians used to stay at their house.

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.

Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

Each year, tens of millions of museumgoers walk through the entrance of the Getty, or the Metropolitan or the Prado or the Hermitage, and never consider the possibility of having to arbitrate for themselves the authenticity of what they have come to see.

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.

There's a lot of tension in London, but then you realize it's always been there, in its history, and that the best thing about London, that there's always been this tension.

When I was very young, my background as a Sikh-American made me aware of the tensions that underlie choice.

In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal.

Iraq does have many, many different tensions.

There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.

I know from my experience in theater that the crowd is different every night; the reactions, the tension. But it's true for film as well, going from country to country and culture to culture. The difference between California and New York responses, for example. It's really fascinating.

There's always that little bit of tension that happens when you make a joke, especially when there's a language barrier.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father's brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.

Because we've always done it that way.' During my 12-year tenure as a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, I heard those words all too often. The agency, in my experience, has an entrenched management culture resistant to change.

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.