We chose NYU because their arts program was great, and they’re a prestigious institution, but really because you’re in a city. You’re involved in a completely different way of life. You didn’t feel trapped within a campus or in a bubble.
Parliament was an institution of enormous standing when I was aspiring to go in. It isn’t now.
It is of course perfectly possible for a university, or any institution, to carry out a rigorous investigation into the historical origins of its accumulated wealth, while at the same time putting in place systems to address modern inequalities of access and attainment.
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
Technology has changed almost everything. One institution remains stubbornly anchored in the past. It’s where I work – the United States Congress, a 19th Century institution using 20th Century technology to respond to 21st Century problems.
Many studies or theories by political scientists fit some subset of cases that a court decides, but literally no theory can account for all of them, particularly when it comes to studying a complex institution like the Supreme Court.
Law is just one public institution, but it is a cornerstone of society. When law goes, everything goes.
I can’t believe they would cancel ‘Big Brother!’ It’s like an institution!
The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who’ve ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.
Because of England’s lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.
I don’t have a problem with anybody or with any institution.
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
Marriage is an institution and that’s where a couple finish up.
Flaws and all, I believe the free press is our country’s most important institution – one I am more than happy to defend. One I did, in fact, defend for 37 years.
Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.
Say what you will about the leadership of ‘SNL,’ they have crafted an institution as opposed to just running a show. I don’t think that’s by accident.
Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.
Shah Rukh Khan is an institution in himself. Like me, there are millions who adore and worship the Badshah of Bollywood. I’ve been a huge fan of him even before I decided to become an actor.
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced… because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
The world is a penal institution.
I don’t think that cinema is bigger than family as an institution.
‘Teletubbies’ is a national institution, and it was a privilege to be asked to be their voice. It feels super surreal, but it does feel wonderful.
Nick can get up on stage and just wing it, whereas I would have to be taken to a mental institution.
President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case – and most Americans would agree with him on this – then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?
It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies were able to undermine pagan morality and the ancient institution of slavery.
You have no ability, if you’re a financial institution and you’re threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.
The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call and response. Sometimes they use the music to pray and work things out. And there’s so much repetition in gospel, it’s like churning butter.
We couldn’t be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That’s the main thing, they slow things down.
We are special because we’ve been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We’re bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
In ‘Pictures from an Institution,’ Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with no plot at all beyond his own pleasure in language and humanity itself.
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it’s broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ‘ancient institution’ the old one.
No one reaches the Oval Office without a great deal of admiration for the institution – and himself – so it’s unsurprising that sitting presidents favor the biographies of former presidents.
I like being married. It’s an institution that I like.
Marriage is a beautiful institution as long as two people understand each other well and are willing to live their life together till they die.
The single greatest line I ever wrote as an analyst was after Lomas said they were hedged: ‘The Lomas Financial Corporation is a perfectly hedged financial institution: it loses money in every conceivable interest rate environment.’ I enjoyed writing that sentence more than any sentence I ever wrote.
It wasn’t until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
I did Jools Holland, which was bonkers because it’s an institution, and as a family, we’ve all been into it our whole lives, and then I did Hootenanny. I took my mum and dad along, and they were sat there next to Gregory Porter and Chaka Khan. My dad was just laughing, like he couldn’t believe it was real.
We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities.
An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
Yeah, I think that social conservatives recognize that they didn’t just lose the debate about same-sex marriage. They lost the debate about the institution of marriage, and those two things were sort of connected to each other. The way people thought about marriage changed.
If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.
Thackeray is an institution that cannot become irrelevant because of one election.
When you lose control of risk at a financial institution, you do a variety of unfortunate credit extensions or purchases – and all of a sudden, you’ve blown up your business.
‘The Price Is Right,’ it was an honor to be offered it because it’s such an American institution. To be able to carry on this tradition with a show that has been on for so long, I thought it was a great opportunity for me.
Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.
If a financial institution has business operations in the United States, hires people in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid assets, they have the same impact on the American people as any other institution.
You can’t keep a democracy going in a functional and constructive way if only 10 percent of the people you represent think your institution is functioning in an acceptable way. That’s just not viable.
