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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports. -- Carlos Slim
In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day. -- Charles B. Rangel
Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times. -- Gagan Narang
To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot. -- Douglas Coupland
I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet. -- Claudio Reyna
I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline. -- C. J. Box
Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today's common culture. -- Danny Meyer
I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs. -- Gagan Narang
I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30' had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers. -- Bill Simmons
Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product. -- Francois-Henri Pinault
What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports? And I say to people who tell me they can't travel, 'How much did you spend at the mall this year? How many times did you eat out? Take that money and go.' -- Dhani Jones
Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity. -- Elizabeth Price
In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs. -- Jackson Katz
We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports ... -- Michael Wilbon
Sports will always be important in global culture, and so fashion, as a reflection of cultural trends, will always incorporate influences from sports. -- Giorgio Armani
Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture. -- Riccardo Muti
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports. -- Arthur Ashe

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