Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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,

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.

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,

Antonin Artaud

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Walter Benjamin

A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.

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.

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.

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.