Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

In my opinion, that has to change. If we are to grow as a region as a tech-based economy, and a knowledge-based economy, we have to embrace those ideas, or at least be willing to be open-minded or experimental about that. It's not a question of are we ready for this in some cultural sense -- enough people are for this to happen. It's one we have to embrace.

Stephen Perkins

It's a side of museums that many people don't see and sometimes don't understand when they see it in your budget. It's something that happens out of the way and it's not flashy but we're ensuring the long-term health of the cultural legacy of the area.

They've gone to the trouble to try to educate people that there is a cultural taboo there,

Michael W. Smith

It's OK that there are cultural differences. I hope this movie sparks conversations that will turn into action.

It's the most important cultural weekend, maybe in the country.

There's a kind of cultural revolution going on at Volkswagen and Mercedes. They're doing much more than they've ever done before.

It pulls kids from every peer group, of every cultural background.

This is the greatest damage to and loss of cultural institutions and cultural patrimony in the history of the country.

It's a tourism issue. It's a cultural issue and it's an economic issue for us.

Alan Ball

It's a twisted little look at cultural imperialism as refracted through a relationship between a trust-fund stoner and a male prostitute, ... It's really fun.

It's a big cultural shift. The question is, can we do it?

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.

Cody and Luther were kids in high school who used to come to the juke joint and sit in the corner, petrified of interacting. But I didn't look at Junior and R.L. as giant heroes of the blues. I looked at them as living continuations of Fred McDowell and John Lee Hooker and guys like that. It was a cultural experience for me.

Simon Rattle

The situation is catastrophic. I can see the hopeless situation of the city... this cultural dismantling is an incredible shame for Berlin.

Peter Bogdanovich

The Telluride Film Festival is different from all other festivals for its un-hyped enthusiasm and casualness, ... The Industry likes that about the event. It's not one big photo op. It has always been more about movies as fun and a cultural medium, than the marketplace.

David Harsanyi

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

Deepak Chopra

It would be a real mistake for us to think that India will ever influence the world through its outsourcing or through its software technology. If India is going to influence the world, it will be through a cultural invasion, a cultural colonization.

This is an important cultural moment. This is the first true national ID card.

That shows that music is a way we can all speak to each other. It is something that transcends language and cultural barriers.

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.

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

Cultural export worldwide is dominated by the world's superpowers, who have the finances, operatives and media machine to export what they deem important.

Due to the prosperity of our tourism industry recently, cultural organizations, which are also growing, are seeing a portion of that prosperity.

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's still this cultural hangover from a different era, when you could get a good job without a postsecondary education. That era is over.

John Eldredge

I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.

What we're trying to do is get the students of ISU some experience out in the field and let them observe a number of different ecosystems. ... They get a scientific experience, a cultural experience, and for lack of a better word, a personal experience.

Mohsin Hamid

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

Nobody has the right to go to somebody at a high school and yell in their face. What the school seems to be doing here is saying one side of an important cultural debate is welcome here and the other side is not.

Certainly, I'd think Beauvoir would be eligible and a priority. Thousands of historic structures were damaged by last year's hurricanes. These funds are important to ensure the full economic and cultural recovery of the Coast.

Sophia Amoruso

My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.

Jacques Barzun

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life,