Quotes About Prestige

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.

The BBC is very prestigious from an American's perspective, so I'm a big fan of it.

There has always been something about the biggest, the wealthiest, the best-known, the most prestigious that has appealed to me. It's always seemed to me that that is what people want to know about.

The Cannes Film Festival is the biggest, most prestigious film festival in the world. This is where filmmakers are discovered, where futures are made, and the most important films premiered.

I am really looking forward to being present in my first three-week race, the Giro d'Italia, a huge and prestigious event that captures one's imagination.

It's a lot to take in to have won something as prestigious as BBC Music Sound Of.

The Champions League is, in terms of club football, the most prestigious one. And if you don't win it you will never be named one of the greatest teams, no chance.

Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup.

I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield.

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

My wife and I often have debates about who studied in a better school and when I list KVM alumni, she kind of loses the argument.

I'd take the Defensive Player of the Year any day over an All-Star selection. There's only one of these in the whole league every year.

My defining moment was when I finally went to Cannes and saw my name along with international filmmakers.

When you come into a house like Saint Laurent, or Chanel, or Lanvin, and you go into a place that existed before you were born and will exist after you die, it takes some time to get in, to get to people, and to get the energy of the place.

Have you driven a Rolls-Royce? There is a difference between a Rolls-Royce and a Nano.

When, as a player, you have dreamed of playing at the highest level, it's normal that it gets your attention to be linked as a target as a possible addition to important clubs in the world.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to the club constituted by the people who are in their tax bracket.

When I go see a basketball game, I'm always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.

Forget the stress of trying to find a taxi while you freeze. Ubers make you feel like you have a personal driver... a luxury!

The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.

Even if your teams are doing lousy and you don't have a good concert, you are still going to be Madison Square Garden, you are still going to be the 'showplace of America.'

There are some big teams out there who don't play in Champions League, but I can't deny that I'd love to play in Europe's most prestigious competition.

Other and more powerful forms of association have existed, but the major moral and psychological influences on the individual's life have emanated from the family and local community and the church. Within such groups have been engendered the primary types of identification: affection, friendship, prestige, recognition. And within them also have been engendered or intensified the principal incentives of work, love, prayer, and devotion to freedom and order.