Cultural Quotes

My course is clear. A British subject I was born, and a British subject I will die.

India's pluralism is its greatest strength and its greatest example to the world.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

We don't hate Muslims, but they have to integrate.

The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.

No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

Woke ideology is a form of cultural Marxism.

I learned a lot in Spain.

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.

Because of work, I travel a lot, and because of that, I can experience different cultures and see and talk to a lot of different people, so I get inspired by that a lot.

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.

Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.

Black, white, rural, urban, Democrat, Republican, independent. People who come from both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. Male, female. Young and old alike. This is our Kentucky.

Our country is pathologically violent.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish."

I believe it's our responsibility to show our communities the value of all people, to celebrate different, and to take a stand for acceptance and inclusion.

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing

When Christopher Columbus went to America, in what language did he speak with the Indians? It is said that the language they spoke with the Indians – and I have indisputable documentation of this at home... The intellectuals among the Indians spoke Arabic. He took two Arabs with him, to serve as interpreters between the Spaniards and the Indians. He took two of them as translators. So you can imagine the historic and cultural value of Arabic. It's undoubtedly very important.

'Baahubali' gave me something that's really huge.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

Diversity is really a richness for mankind.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.