Cultural Event Quotes

#1. When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

Sean Penn

#2. A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.

Steven Soderbergh

#3. Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Mark Twain

#4. I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for,

Audrey Hepburn

#5. Geek e-mail sign-off: No trees were killed to send this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#7. How bad? Like, Cassie bad, or your idea of mischief?

Jennifer Foor

#8. The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

Martin Jacques

#9. This is what should be meant by people power. The power for people to choose which of the government's petty, silly, pointless laws they want to obey. And which they don't.

Jeremy Clarkson

#10. Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Marcel Proust

#11. I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.'

Ayelet Waldman

#12. his mild cynicism morphed into depression.

Toni Morrison

#13. Since I did the SK Project and I partner with the United Nations World Food Program, I got a lot of different feedback from people online. Through social networks and through the Twitter. I read the comments and see 'em saying, 'People hungry here, Fif.'

Curtis Jackson

#14. First, [in high school], I smoked a lot of pot ... and that's how I got to know the people 'half in' the society of my high school and we waved at each other over the bong. Then I got to know people by making jokes.

Stephen Colbert

#15. So, Mr. Grady, how did you find yourself in the FBI?" ( ... )
Ty gave her a charming smile. "The Marines didn't want me, and it's hard to find a job where you can shoot things without getting arrested.

Abigail Roux

#16. I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Poker Face' ... Oh! What a song! And 'Rolling in the Deep' ... Oh!

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#17. If God wanted you to live a mediocre life, He wouldn't have made you so awesome. Never apologize for being designed to succeed.

Steve Maraboli

#18. I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.

Nile Rodgers

#19. Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

Chalmers Johnson

#20. There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.

Judith Butler