I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.
It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
Golda Meir: Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.
All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return.
I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.
And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.
If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.
A real businessman value his partners like friends and his partnership like friendship.
