Cultural Compatibility Quotes & Sayings

My litmus test of compatibility is 'Tom Cruise.' I hate people who hate Tom Cruise, cultural automatons who at the mention of his name reflexively bridle and say the diminutive thespian and Theta level Scientoligist is 'crazy' and 'a terrible actor'. They hate him because he's easy to hate. They think that despising Tom Cruise's lack of personality and supposed lack of talent is somehow a blow against the bland American Anschluss of the rest of the planet. Tom Cruise may indeed be the Christopher Columbus of the twentieth century, sent off by the kings of Hollywood to prove the new world of International Box Office isn't flat and to find a direct route into the Asian market, but the decline of everything isn't his fault; he's just a cinematic explorer and a damn fine actor. And hating him doesn't make you seditious- it makes you complicit. — Paul Beatty

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. — Paul Ryan

Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where. — Michele Jennae

Sports and politics don't mix. — Eric Heiden

Erion, how many times must I tell you not to bring me wild women until after dark? It's distracing." A man grinned wickedly. — Elise Kova

I get recognised, but I'm not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that. — Emilie De Ravin

Nature is kind to him who goes on foot, and makes him aware of beauties and delights never discovered to the traveller on wheels. — Walter White

When asked to give a speech never turn it down. It is a chance to develop you and to give new insight to others — Jim Rohn

And if this was Tate then I definitely wanted to get laid by him. Definitely. — Kristen Ashley

As far as my experience of matrimony goes
I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. — Charlotte Bronte

The truly important events on the outside are not the trends. They are changes in the trends. — Peter F. Drucker

Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart? — Tori Amos