Famous Quotes & Sayings

We definitely wanted to go deep into the cult of personality that these kind of people have with their fans.

We don't just cultivate strawberries, we cultivate people.

Tsui Hark

Wuxia culture is like another dimension that provides us with strong emotion, strong passion.

Abhishek Bachchan

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

We're using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the ground because they're obscured by modernization, forests, or soil.

Simon Van Booy

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

Abbas Kiarostami

We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.

Wes Studi

I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.

Gunter Grass

The European Union arose on an economic foundation, and it turns out that even this is not a solid base. Cultural identity has been neglected.

Tourists who are very interested in history and culture, but also the natural environment.

Luke Rhinehart

'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

Christopher Plummer

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

Dwayne Johnson

I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

We presume that people are pop culture junkies,

Simone Weil

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

Susan Isaacs

Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

Shane Carruth

'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it'll be judged, and it'll either live or it won't by its own merit, and history will decide whether it's relevant however long into the future. I think that's more than enough to hope for.

Steve Largent

No culture that has ever embraced homosexuality has survived.

Vladimir Putin

The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

Thomas Mann

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Ben Mendelsohn

I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.

Steve Ross

I thought we had a potential pop culture classic, ... But I think it's fair to say none of us anticipated the level of sales we've seen. Clearly, people are responding to the concept.

Andrew Lansley

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.

Adriano Giannini

'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy.

The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, or incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

We still have a tender place in our heart, for Mexico and the flag, our culture and our language, but we're in the United States, and we have to respect the American flag.

Cynthia Ozick

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

Clifford Geertz

Culture is public, because meaning is

Joel Salatin

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

Amanda Harlech

Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.

Glenn Greenwald

Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions.

John Podhoretz

While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.