Famous Quotes & Sayings

I expected a lot of parties, different cultures and seeing people sticking with others from their hometown.

From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible.

For the second kind of readers, Vogue offers fashion concepts, and helps to cultivate their taste and vision of fashion.

GM's got enormous momentum of the wrong kind. It has, in decades past, been hugely successful. The culture has said, 'Whatever we've done in the past will repeat itself', but that's not working in the current environment.

The pace is quicker. Collectively as a culture, we have to name over-busyness as a cultural problem and not view it as part of the good life.

There is a person who insists upon making reform every time he opens his mouth but tradition and culture should be protected resolutely.

We must incorporate the culture of planning in our towns and cities.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

I guess I was very fortunate; I had a very very, lets put it this way, I had very wonderful upbringing and a childhood where my parents, of course, exposed us to many cultural aspects, not only of India but other parts of the world.

Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

I would put little credibility in it. It would be expensive and the cultural differences are pretty big.

Chad Kroeger

I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.

Dustin Diamond

If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out.

He would always tell my son to always respect his culture.

He has done a lot of research on Acadian and Cajun culture. It should be a pretty lively program.

Woody Johnson

He has a passion for football. .... He understands the culture of football.

He made evident that a jazz pianist can translate to popular culture. He wrote the theme to the TV show 'Taxi,' that's him playing the piano at the beginning.

Al Gore

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

Charles Colson

Culture is religion incarnate.

Kathe Kollwitz

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

Al Yankovic

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

Rob Sheffield

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Maurice Saatchi cultivated the press instead of the clients.

One should respect his motherland, his culture and his mother tongue because they are givers of happiness.

John Gallagher

One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries,

Sophia Amoruso

My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.

My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers.

Now there are thousands of people with those names that wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for them. This generation of parents is looking to get away from cookie-cutter stuff, and our culture of celebrities is supporting that.

Dominic West

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

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.

Simply put, it works. The Exxon Mobil culture is something that a lot of people would like to understand better. I'm not really going to help them understand it, because it's the source of our competitive advantage.

We have a rich tradition here in the Coshocton area, ... When we were pushed out of the east, this was one of the spots we stopped for a while before they pushed us further west. There is a lot of cultural history here. It's like we're back home again.

Archie Shepp

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

Ben Nicholson

The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.