Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Mraz

Thanks to 'I'm Yours,' I'm probably set for a really long time. The pressure I put on myself, or what I hope my 'I Won't Give Up' does, is to make a difference in people's lives... With 'I'm Yours,' I got to go out and set my feet on different continents, and expose myself to different cultures and causes.

Linda Ronstadt

Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways.

Sometimes you feel like they're not talking to you because you're Dominican. You don't want to use the word racist, but you want to have somebody in the game who knows our culture and can relate to us, and then we don't feel left out.

Katha Pollitt

Ten years of misogynistic lad culture later and women victims are still on trial.

Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and watch it grow is immensely rewarding.

I've often found myself looking fondly at the Valentine's cultures in other countries. South Korea, for instance - where women must give chocolate to men.

Deepak Chopra

It would be a real mistake for us to think that India will ever influence the world through its outsourcing or through its software technology. If India is going to influence the world, it will be through a cultural invasion, a cultural colonization.

These cult fad stocks always end up in disaster.

Simon Rattle

The situation is catastrophic. I can see the hopeless situation of the city... this cultural dismantling is an incredible shame for Berlin.

John Simpson

The study shatters the perception that culture is no longer an issue once people gain wealth.

Peter Bogdanovich

The Telluride Film Festival is different from all other festivals for its un-hyped enthusiasm and casualness, ... The Industry likes that about the event. It's not one big photo op. It has always been more about movies as fun and a cultural medium, than the marketplace.

James Hall

As long as there are differences in the interpretation -- and there are significant differences in the cultural interpretations of some expressions on the recorder -- I think it is unfair ... for us to characterize it,

That trip was kind of different because I'm not used to being out west. Then I come back to the East Coast, and the Midwest trip was different from the Northeast. It's good to travel and see the different cultures around the country.

That shows that music is a way we can all speak to each other. It is something that transcends language and cultural barriers.

Jon Corzine

We have a culture of people who look to government as a way to make money, ... Whoever is the next governor has got to take this on tooth and nail, and I intend to do it.

We have a culture of losing we have to get past. Hopefully, we can turn things around.

We have a culture in Knoxville where there is a huge problem of kids smoking pot. I mean, it's rapid here in Knox County.

Bill Richardson

What I should have said, what I didn't take into account, is that the lab culture needs to be changed, ... I didn't take in the human element.

What I've encountered is a culture of greed and deception.

We found that success involved much more than skilled individual doctors and nurses. What distinguished these hospitals was how well they were organized, how teams functioned together, how the culture rewarded quality improvement and how they dealt with setbacks.

The whole point is why the mountains, the land, still determines our culture. The mountains sort of drive how we live.

the will and the culture of this nation in ways that are everlasting and profound.

The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!

The rich Jewish culture of Spain permeates Judaism to this day, ... Their customs, language, traditions, food and art, as well as Sephardic Judaism, spread out through the Diaspora. The first American Jews were Sephardic. It is important to recover this history.

Sathya Baba

Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

John Lasseter

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

You have to talk about the culture before you can talk about business.

Liev Schreiber

We talked about our grandfathers and their senses of humor and our sense of culture and history, and we had a lot in common,

Norman Lear

We just had a wonderful time. It was a very different time in our culture, generally.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

John Eldredge

I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.

We inhabit a culture that's disgusted by intellect,

We don't think of their prior lives in other countries. We know our culture, our law enforcement system, how we interview people.