Quotes About Culture

In Maori culture there's a lot of humor and just as quickly we are able to express grief.

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language.

I really like gross Chinese things.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

You can't come back to Australia and be like, 'I've been doing this and I've been doing this.' 'Cause they'll be like, 'Who do you think you are, mate?' Which is good! It keeps you really, y'know, grounded, I guess.

I have worked with the tavil and the mridangam all my artistic life. My style does have a strong grounding in rhythm.

I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.

In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.

It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.

In the early '90s, all the girl groups were dressing super feminine. And then we came on the scene wearing Cross Colours, Girbaud, and Nautica.

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

I grew up abroad, so I would love to have my child grow up the same way and experience the world.

When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

Growing up on Long Island, I think Billy Joel albums come with your driver's license.

When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.

I love the whole Punjabi culture as I have seen it very closely in Delhi in my growing up years.

There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently.

I don't perm my hair anymore, but I'm not a natural hair expert just because it grows out of my head like that.

Not everybody grows up the same. Everybody is exposed to different things growing up.