Quotes About Prestige

I love Aston Martin.

I've got an Aston Martin.

The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

The Masters is always at the front and center of my mind, and not because I'm the only one thinking about it. Other people associate me with this great event, and that's an honor.

I like to be respected as an actor.

I love the Ritz.

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

Once I was asked to do celebrity rowing, where they taught people who had been to Oxford or Cambridge to row against each other. That sounded like too much hard work: really early mornings and having to be quite fit, which I'm not.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn't even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How ridiculous is that?

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

No. 1 career highlight? It would have to be getting the MBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.

Our first ever live gig was in front of Buckingham Palace, an Olympic event attended by some of the royal family, and we had to follow James Brown.

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

The biggest clubs in Europe, whether they be Barcelona, Madrid, Manchester United, or Chelsea, always want to win, whatever they are participating in.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

the same time, they tell us to what extent the contemporary theory scene, and especially the French one, of which Bourdieu has a good overview, resembles a bonfire of vanities. They show how deeply the human, the all too human, especially the struggle for prestige and privileged status, influenced the behavior of the class that does theory.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Britain was still seen as a world power. It was enjoying

Leadership is not equivalent to office-holding or high prestige or authority or decision-making. It is not helpful to identify leadership with whatever is done by people in high places. The activity we have in mind may or may not be engaged in by those who are formally in positions of authority. This is inescapable if we are to develop a theory that will be useful in diagnosing cases of inadequate leadership on the part of persons in authority.

Queen Victoria loved the French Riviera. She visited on nine occasions and did a great deal to give this area its chic international reputation.

To be in 'Vogue' has to mean something. It's an endorsement. It's a validation.

'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.