Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Lewis

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

Tom Wilson

uniquely qualified to discuss an out-of-control culture of corruption.

Brad Bird

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

Bobby Jindal

I want to create a culture of life where every innocent human life is welcome to the world. I know those are difficult cases, but I am prolife. And I understand we've got to go through the Supreme Court.

Ben Barnes

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

Arthur Erickson

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

bell hooks

Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

bell hooks

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

bell hooks

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

Baltasar Gracian

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

Derrick Jensen

Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

Derrick Jensen

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

Working there, excavating, is truly like taking a ride in a time machine as you uncover cultural artifacts that see the light of day for the first time in thousands of years.

With the increase in the campaign, all the extra funds went to expand allocations and grants. That helped to cultivate newer groups and smaller groups, to help them mature.

Richard Blumenthal

We're involved because these studies show a pattern and even a practice ? in fact a culture ? of inaccuracy in charging,

We're getting ready for the future. We've cultivated and planted a garden and it's starting to grow. We need to keep doing that the rest of the season.

We regard witchcraft, as part of the mystery of our cultural heritage

Venezuela is serving as a model of respect for indigenous peoples and their right to culture, land and sovereignty.

Mohsin Hamid

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

Robbie Robertson

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.

Sam Altman

Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.

Sathya Baba

Man has to follow righteousness. He has to cultivate love. he has to live in peace. He has to observe nonviolence.

Taylor Handley

As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

Tom Bissell

Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers.

Tony Hawk

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

Tracy McMillan

We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life.

The outgoing Senate has lost credibility and public trust over the past few years. The incoming senators will be hard pressed to cultivate a semblance of legitimacy given the ongoing crisis.

Brian Eno

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Brian Posehn

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

Kreayshawn

I know Diplo knows a lot about underground music culture - he was one of the people to put me onto music like that when I used to listen to the Mad Decent Mixes. It was like, 'Oh, he knows what I want.'

Kirk Hammett

The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.

Eric Schlosser

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

Kathe Kollwitz

I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.