Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gambling has become much more normative in our culture, in our society, and in the media. If there were taboos about women only playing bingo, they've been erased.

Being there really sealed for me the fact that the world needs to hold onto the culture they have. It is so transporting. It just takes you out of the place where you've been and into a completely new area.

Being assimilated into a new culture and environment takes time and if not managed carefully, can turn into an ugly experience.

Sathya Baba

As the mother, so the progress of the nation. As the mother, so the sweetness of culture!

Actually, there were three cultures that converged Powhatan, English and African.

The sooner we can implement a program of selling our culture to the uncommitted people of the world as a weapon, the better off we are,

I've always been fascinated by the culture of India.

Jason Mraz

Thanks to 'I'm Yours,' I'm probably set for a really long time. The pressure I put on myself, or what I hope my 'I Won't Give Up' does, is to make a difference in people's lives... With 'I'm Yours,' I got to go out and set my feet on different continents, and expose myself to different cultures and causes.

Sometimes you feel like they're not talking to you because you're Dominican. You don't want to use the word racist, but you want to have somebody in the game who knows our culture and can relate to us, and then we don't feel left out.

Katha Pollitt

Ten years of misogynistic lad culture later and women victims are still on trial.

I've often found myself looking fondly at the Valentine's cultures in other countries. South Korea, for instance - where women must give chocolate to men.

John Simpson

The study shatters the perception that culture is no longer an issue once people gain wealth.

That trip was kind of different because I'm not used to being out west. Then I come back to the East Coast, and the Midwest trip was different from the Northeast. It's good to travel and see the different cultures around the country.

Jon Corzine

We have a culture of people who look to government as a way to make money, ... Whoever is the next governor has got to take this on tooth and nail, and I intend to do it.

We have a culture of losing we have to get past. Hopefully, we can turn things around.

We have a culture in Knoxville where there is a huge problem of kids smoking pot. I mean, it's rapid here in Knox County.

Bill Richardson

What I should have said, what I didn't take into account, is that the lab culture needs to be changed, ... I didn't take in the human element.

What I've encountered is a culture of greed and deception.

We found that success involved much more than skilled individual doctors and nurses. What distinguished these hospitals was how well they were organized, how teams functioned together, how the culture rewarded quality improvement and how they dealt with setbacks.

The whole point is why the mountains, the land, still determines our culture. The mountains sort of drive how we live.

the will and the culture of this nation in ways that are everlasting and profound.

The rich Jewish culture of Spain permeates Judaism to this day, ... Their customs, language, traditions, food and art, as well as Sephardic Judaism, spread out through the Diaspora. The first American Jews were Sephardic. It is important to recover this history.

John Lasseter

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

You have to talk about the culture before you can talk about business.

Liev Schreiber

We talked about our grandfathers and their senses of humor and our sense of culture and history, and we had a lot in common,

Norman Lear

We just had a wonderful time. It was a very different time in our culture, generally.

We inhabit a culture that's disgusted by intellect,

We don't think of their prior lives in other countries. We know our culture, our law enforcement system, how we interview people.

I'm getting to know the culture and doing a lot of listening, ... I'm here to become part of the organization." ()

Elizabeth Dole

In 1978, the Raleigh News & Observer dubbed Senator Helms Senator No. And indeed he said no -- no to high taxes, no to big government, no to enemies of freedom around the world, no to those who would undermine the culture of life and the sanctity of marriage.

Christopher Lasch

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the world'. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the collective.

Peter Steele

I like languages and I like different European cultures, because I happen to be Russian, Polish, Icelandic and Scottish.

It's part of the whole culture that looks at the West and what we do as the enemy.