The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.
There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.
French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.
In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.
I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me.
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.
There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.
I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.
Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
