Quotes About Culture

Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization.

I love Korean rice and Korean food in general. Korean barbecues are cool - there's a table with a hole in it with fire coming through, and we throw meat on it.

In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

When you're in a movie with Will Ferrell, well, it's time to at least sometimes throw the script away. And that character in 'Talladega Nights' I found a lot easier to kind of riff with because I related to it more, those kind of Southern, almost rednecky guys. That's a culture that I'm familiar with, that makes sense for me to spew.

I could live on fresh bread. My parents, who are Polish, have brought us up on varieties of bread from European bakeries, and I love rye, caraway seed, dark rye... throw in some butter and cheese, and I'm set.

There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away?

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious.

My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.

I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.

Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley and thinking: 'Why am I throwing these stems away? They're perfectly edible.'

Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.

We have a reputation here in the Pelican State for daring to be different. We live in parishes, not counties. We spend our holidays throwing beads at people lining the street. We cook differently. We speak differently - we spell differently. There is no place in the country that compares to Louisiana.

At Berkeley, you wore a hoodie and pajamas and Birkenstocks, and that's swag. I was so thrown off. What I thought was cool wasn't cool no more, so I thought about what I actually liked. I started experimenting. I started wearing Birkenstocks. I wanted to dive into the culture.

I'd set out to Oman in search of luxury with culture and family-friendly adventure thrown in. And I found it.

Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.

Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.

I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they would all say 'amen' at the end of each, for want of a better word, paragraph. And that threw me completely. I almost went into an Ella Fitzgerald sort of scat.

Fashion is all about references. All these names being thrown around.

Access to information, to music or any kind of culture, is getting faster and faster and more streamlined. At each juncture, people are thrown into tumult and have to adapt or die.