Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Yunus

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

Michael Flatley

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

Confucius

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

When you get into a different culture, for me, I was in shock. If I need to be productive in my job, I don't need to have these problems.

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.

Rodney Davis

We need to completely shed ourselves of the monopoly culture. It's very difficult for some to accept. We need to get our employees to operate as entrepreneurs within their own space.

Mahmoud Abbas

We must all be responsible and guard the land and the property because it will leave the impression on the world that we are cultured and deserve a state,

When public policy goes one way and the premises of the culture go the other, you've got a formula for an unsustainable system of education,

Janet Fitch

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

Roland Barthes

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Billie Armstrong

We were watching things unfold, surrounded by all that was going on in the news and pop culture. I wanted to say the most controversial (things) I could while still keeping the songs smart and articulate. And there's a sense of humor there, which makes it more inviting than if I were just pointing fingers.

We're all delighted to be enshrined in one of the icons of pop culture. Yow! Are we having fun!

Sathya Baba

Women are the repositories of Truth and Culture.

Douglas Merrill

We're taking on people who have technical skills who also fit our culture and are excited about our innovation mission as fast as we possibly can.

Stephen Jay Gould

The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens ) and human free will (in the factual rather than theological sense) are conjoined concepts, and no better evidence can be produced than the "experimental" production of markedly different solutions in identical environments.

The race fits the culture of New Mexico well.

(The organizers at AFS) warned us about having culture shock when we come back.

Jakaya Kikwete

The opposition should look seriously into reasons that led them to be rejected by the people. To show our good faith in promoting the culture of opposition (politics) in this country, I am going to set up a ministry to look into government and opposition relations.

The opportunities are great because of the resources you already have are really strong. Particularly impressive are the cultural resources already available.

Jon Favreau

There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie. Sometimes the splash happens, like with 'Swingers,' where it sort of slowly ripples out, yet everybody could quote it. Or it could be something like 'Elf,' where you just make a big splash right off the bat when the movie comes out.

There is so much about hip-hop culture that is peculiar to New York, and I got to understand it from that point of view.

We think the safety and health culture may have been a little lax at this plant. Some of these violations had existed for years.

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.

Kurt Vonnegut

What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.

This sale will be a truly exceptional event. With the exception of the great spiritual leaders, his influence on Western culture is more profound than any individual who has lived.

There is a culture of pessimism in Germany. There is a sense that something can go wrong and they tend to look around for it.

There is a culture of pessimism in Germany.

There is a culture of impunity that no one would be held fully accountable for detainee deaths.

Dennis Potter

There is a culture of anti-Mormonism on this campus.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

We're trying to cultivate these deals as fast as we can.

We salute you for your steadfastness in maintaining the faith of your ancestral tradition, as well as your love for the beautiful, spiritual, cultural and folk traditions in which you reverently persevere. Truly it is out of respect and love for the memory of your forebears that you have clung to your ecclesiastical and ancestral customs.