Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ameen Rihani

Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

Ameen Rihani

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.

Anil Ambani

Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.

The day was a real eye-opener and cultural stretch for me.

Will the new population demand that the cultural feel of the French Quarter, the Garden District and the rest stay the same? ... Or will they be OK with a lot of new shopping malls taking over? Who knows?

Wireless communications are an integral part of our culture today.

We were looking for a unique cultural experience for the kids, a soccer culture, someplace where soccer is it, and soccer is definitely it in Italy.

We realize that as it is, the culture of Spring Fling is unsustainable, and this gives students the opportunity to somewhat rein in that culture.

We take this seriously. The pro gambling culture is something we educate our players about extensively.

Wade Davis

to find those great stories of wonder found within various cultures that teach us something about human experience.

Eric Schlosser

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

Kid Rock

The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.

Loretta Napoleoni

I think generally the heads of terrorist groups are very, very smart people. They're also great manipulators. I would presume that cult leaders are identical. These sort of individuals are very strong, they have very strong charisma.

Andy Garcia

When I met him, he seemed to me a humble man who spoke through his music, and that's the way he's always been, ... He dedicated his life to his music and his art, which transcends cultures and even age.

We use the latest in natural cultural practices. Kevin Hicks (course superintendent) has done an excellent job.

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.

Branford Marsalis

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

Antonio Machado

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.

Edwidge Danticat

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.

Eckhart Tolle

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

David Brin

History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.

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.