Quotes About Culture

We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.

I'm real connected with Australia, you heard? I gotta come up there, man.

I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone.

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in communities - how we treat one another when we are not being stupid - what I find is deeply Aboriginal.

We are governed by consumerism and it's terrible when that is all that life is geared to.

I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

I think about 'Will & Grace,' and I think about 'Modern Family,' and the way that being gay has become sort of middle America... in the way that they show gay people in their specific way.

I feel saree is a very graceful attire.

When I was in the second grade, I learned that I looked different from my classmates.

If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.

While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have their own individual character and grain.

I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.

They've lived here now for more than half of their lives, and they raised a family here and now have grandchildren here... It has become their home, but at the same time, for my parents, I don't think either of them will ever consciously think, 'I am an American.'

Going to India to do a film is not an everyday affair. I thought I would do that one movie to show my grandchildren when I am 60.

I follow the Hindutva of my father and grandfather.

My grandma was a very traditional woman but, at the same time, would want me to have kids.

My grandma loves beauty pageants, like most of Latin American culture, but it's not for me.

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.