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We're similar in the dynamics of our character, our cultural roots, our focus on family and our personalities. We both love to laugh. We make jokes all the time. We both work very, very hard, but we love and maintain an atmosphere of fun.

like any cultural institution, stands for artistic freedom.

Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don't attract as many cultural tourists as New York, London or Paris. I want to change that.

Loretta's extensive business and public service background, coupled with her community involvement and role as a nationally recognized advocate for cultural diversity, make her an ideal choice to lead the New Mexico team.

Since we announced this campaign, there has been an incredible outpouring of support from the music and entertainment community, who want to lend their voices, performances or messages of hope to those in need. The affected area hit hard by Hurricane Katrina shares a rich musical and cultural heritage, so it's all the more meaningful that we try to support these massive relief efforts through music and encouraging our audiences to help any way they can.

Minnesota has generally competent and honest public officials, good support of the schools and cultural amenities, and an excellent state university.

MoMA is one of the world's great cultural institutions with one of the world's premier Boards and Museum leadership. It is my distinct pleasure to work with such a talented and highly qualified group. I salute Bob Menschel for the high bar he has set and follow him in the position of Chairman with all the respect he has earned.

Ms. Apple was chosen based on her extensive credentials and experience in the field of historic preservation and cultural tourism.

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?

One of the things I'm proudest of in my career is producing so much of August's work here. I'm going to believe that since August is such feisty guy, he'll meet this health challenge like he's met the challenge of writing an extraordinary cultural history.

One of the things that many people have been watching in this whole great human tragedy ... is what's happening to this extraordinary cultural and historic landmark of America and how much of its going to be there to help the city recover -- because this is what draws a lot of people there.

One of the things that impressed me was that blend of the traditional Southern revival with the cultural sensibilities of a middle-class suburban congregation.

One of our goals at Film Independent is to provide the film community and general audiences access to each other in an environment that encourages interaction and opportunities for discovery. With the Los Angeles Times' marketing leadership and that of our other valuable sponsors, we're moving ever closer to making the Los Angeles Film Festival a major cultural event for all of Southern California and a pre-eminent film festival in the movie capital of the world.

One of Midway's core in-game advertising strategies is to infuse our games with cultural context through the integration of static in-game product placements. We believe static promotions in conjunction with dynamic advertising will represent an attractive revenue opportunity for Midway. Sarah is arguably one of our industry's most experienced professionals in this emerging field, and we anticipate that she will manage the process for static ads as well as dynamic in-game ads with Double Fusion in an effort to maximize incremental revenue from our top titles.

Of course, the gene pool didn't change. The environment has indeed changed and cultural pressure to be thin has been greater on the younger part of the study group.

One thing that we find especially attractive is that American children will be able to participate in the cultural programs if they want to learn a little Japanese. It brings an additional dimension to our community. It makes us a richer and better place to live.

My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.

Music and the arts are not just something to make people feel good. They elevate the soul and broaden the entire personality. It's easy to say they aren't needed because culture seems intangible. But not having it deprives young people of a cultural heritage.

Montevideo is a beautiful city with a very European style. It's a small city, but with a lot of cultural movement and a lot of personality. At the same time, it's a very chill city.

Monday Night Football is a television institution, if not a cultural institution, ... It's not unlike '60 Minutes' trying to go to '60 Minutes II.' It never really captured the audience.

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers.

Now that years have gone by and I look back at it and I can put one and two together, it was my childhood memories and cultural feelings and beliefs in the whole tie-in of the French Canadian/Portuguese thing.

New construction in China is just booming. They (developers) are all along the major coastal cities and they're really proficient at it. But they want to understand how to look like, act like, and perform like U.S. production builders but retain all the Chinese cultural aspects.

Obviously, this is a significant loss to the musical legacy of our nation and the history of Beverly Hills and its role in shaping American culture. Despite repeated pleas from local residents, Beverly Hills still has no mechanism to protect its historic and cultural treasures.

Nobody has the right to go to somebody at a high school and yell in their face. What the school seems to be doing here is saying one side of an important cultural debate is welcome here and the other side is not.

People want more meaningful travel experiences and they are finding them in interactions with people from different cultures. More than half of our clients come to us for cultural travel.

Poker has become a cultural phenomenon as shown by the increasing popularity of the World Poker Tour television series. The World Poker Tour brand is an integral part of our game as it brings unmatched credibility and familiarity to millions of poker fans. With the integration of World Poker Tour pros, commentators and presentation elements, the World Poker Tour video game delivers the most authentic poker experience found on any gaming platform.

My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

My upbringing has always been quite equal in terms of cultural influences. But it's unlikely that anything could prepare you for a job that involves belting out Proclaimers songs on camera, in Edinburgh and in public.

Only in the new millennium, in the waning days of ironic cultural breakdown could something like this have happened. He is now a brilliant actor.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Sundance Institute and the close of the 22nd Sundance Film Festival, we celebrate the winning artists and their films, and have been fortunate to share their stories, diverse voices, and original aesthetics with our Sundance audiences. This year we've seen a number of films that deal sensitively with the timely and complex issues of cultural assimilation and community. Clearly, these compelling stories along with the quality of filmmaking have resonated with audiences and jury members alike.

One of their specialties is restoration. I'd say two-thirds to three-quarters of their work is in cultural venues, and a lot of them have been historic properties.

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.

One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.

I would put little credibility in it. It would be expensive and the cultural differences are pretty big.

I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.

I did not make my first recording until I was 37... I did not even start to study music until I was 20... I entered music at a time when New York was this cauldron of incredible artistic and cultural activity.

I am enormously proud of the cultural performance our team produced for the Closing Ceremony. Through a dynamic display of artistry and imagination, the world saw the diversity and wonder of Canada and our love of winter sport. I could not be happier with the performance.

I am elated to have acquired such a monumental piece relating to one of the most adored men in American sports and cultural history. The fact that the item had not previously been located only added to my interest on behalf of our client. The 1934 Tour of Japan remains to date one of the most fabled of it's type in sports history,

I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.

I am so pleased to have such a key British cultural player to work with our team,

Certainly, I'd think Beauvoir would be eligible and a priority. Thousands of historic structures were damaged by last year's hurricanes. These funds are important to ensure the full economic and cultural recovery of the Coast.

But there were too many people for me and the cultural shock was too much. Since the school in New Mexico was affiliated with them, I went back down to there to continue my studies.

Because of the wide variety of cultural attitudes worldwide and the consumer concern for privacy, there's going to be a very large demand for products that can help you do this. It's clearly shaping up to be an important market, two or three years out.

China enjoys 5,000 years of history and cultural diversity that stems from its vast population, ... What we're presenting is a comprehensive sampling of the best that China has to offer, large and small ensembles from many regions of China, as well as artists of Chinese descent from the United States.

I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.

I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

I have always felt that history, and especially cultural history, is best when it takes the broad view. In the case of spices, much of the fascination of the subject lies precisely in its intoxicating variety; I felt that to do it justice the writing had to be anything but narrowly focused, dry and dusty itself. I was determined to put some of that variety into my writing.

I give a voice to the voiceless, keep an eye on border injustices and watch the ever-changing cultural and racial issues in my back yard. The minority in America is constantly asking himself who he is simply because it is so difficult to know.

Given the different national conditions of China and Canada and given our different history and cultural traditions, it is quite normal for our two countries to have different views about human rights.

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life,

For scientific achievements to serve the most possible people, scientists should work in a responsible way, with respect for cultural diversity, personal freedom and human dignity,

Funds raised by the Tin Cup Tea allow for important programming and operational improvements that otherwise could not happen, ... These cultural institutions play an important role in preserving Nevada's heritage.

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not.

I get tired of hearing people, well-meaning people, talking about African-American kids or Hispanic kids as if they're all the same. Which isn't true. There is a very diverse group of people in both groups in terms of income, objectives in life, aspirations, cultural wants, habits, all the things that make us unique Americans.

If the Hispanic community was more involved with the police and fire programs, it would be better. But in a lot of cases, the cultural barriers are stronger than the language barrier.

He has effected a sea-change in American constitutional jurisprudence. His sophisticated revival of federalism, in particular, renews that which makes democracy work -- not in theory, but on the ground. It gives divergent voices a chance to be heard and prevail, not in one venue, but in 50. Had the Court heeded his wisdom more thoroughly, there would be less nonsense about red and blue division and far less cultural warfare.

He felt that Canandaigua, you know, 'The Chosen Spot,' that's what it means in Algonquin Indian, should have more cultural arts.

Having foreign players on our team has been very good for us. College is about opening yourself up to new opportunities, and that includes cultural opportunities.

helped disrupt shared cultural memory, undermining community unity and adding to the pressures that have induced millions of Americans, white and black, to leave the cities for the suburbs and small towns.

There is a huge cultural issue to overcome; if these account holders were the type of people who played the stock market, they wouldn't have done their banking in a safe haven like the post office to begin with. This may be a step in the right direction, but it will take many years before we feel it.

The purpose of the chair is to help to close the gap between the knowledge of wildlife science and the implementation of wildlife policy. Dr. Peterson's professional experience with environmental conflict resolution on such topics as energy, air quality, water quality and use, land use, cultural attitudes about natural resources and wildlife habitat conservation on private lands make her a first-rate choice for this new position.

We try to provide most of the cultural and military direction of the world, but we steadfastly refuse to consider the perspectives of those who would live beneath our shadow. I want to illustrate the fact that we are all almost exactly the same, and so the only thing we can and should really fear is the mirror on ourselves.

We try to increase cultural awareness because many people come through Japanese culture through anime.

He represented kind of the lowest residue of cultural knowledge. The implication is that every English speaker by the 1380s would have known Robin Hood. ... That's a pretty extraordinary idea.

He represented kind of the lowest residue of cultural knowledge, ... The implication is that every English speaker by the 1380s would have known Robin Hood. ... That's a pretty extraordinary idea.

Having the 2008 Olympics in China is the chance to create a cultural understanding. Both China and the world will have the chance to meet on a common ground.

Here we have a chance to look at the street system, public open space, to ask ourselves what are the things there we want to keep of great historic and cultural significance.

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

The pace is quicker. Collectively as a culture, we have to name over-busyness as a cultural problem and not view it as part of the good life.

There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.

There is a need for cultural change in the bank to trust NGOs and to talk to them, but there is an equal need for some members of civil society to give us a chance and not say simply that it's the bank and it must be evil,

Under political pressure and lure of financial reward, Senegal has restored diplomatic relations with China and decided to maintain with us only economic, business and cultural ties,

We must focus on economic development as our central task, making development our top priority and facilitating and all-round progress in economic, political and cultural aspects and in the building of a harmonious society,

Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

Harry Potter represents a much larger wave of cultural revolution that we're all immersed in, and I believe it's a spiritual revolution as well - a negative spiritual revolution.

Just think for a moment if science really could move in the field of authenticity of works of art. There would be a cultural revolution to say the least, but also, I would say, a market revolution, let me add.

I think it proves that being gay isn't a cultural choice, which means you've got to like Barbra Streisand records. You can be what you want to be.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

It all starts with a commitment to get it right in the eyes of our native advisers and native communities, ... We want to present the material in a way that connects to people and helps them understand native cultures, builds cultural sensitivity, builds cultural awareness and makes them want to go beyond what they've seen.

It appears to be more about trade than the promotion of cultural diversity. The World Trade Organization is the place for (trade),

I think it's just going to make North Park a cultural hub in the city, ... and people will start coming back into our older urban communities and urban villages because so much of this is going on.

It is abominable to witness the cold and calculated destruction of cultural properties which were the heritage of the Afghan people, and, indeed, of the whole of humanity.

I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich.

I think the biggest issue for NASA and for the Russian Space Agency and other folks... (is) everybody has to accept some cultural change to make this happen. It's probably the biggest problem in front of us and it's probably one of the hardest things we have got to go work on.

La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy's cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image. Closing it would send a message to the rest of the world that Italy doesn't care.

I think we have yet to realize how much we are going to miss that. I don't think it's a total coincidence that it's happening at the same time there's an increasingly divisive nature in the country. What the consensus medium of television used to do, and radio before that, was to provide this enormous center that everybody had to go to now and then. ... Now, there is a lack of cultural consensus that even extends to what we consider the body of facts we used to debate.

I think it's totally cultural ? we don't have the history of a mating dance. It's very difficult for men to approach women here I get a lot of rolled eyes. In New York and L.A., at least they understand it's part of the dating ritual.

I think it's quite nicely arranged around our cultural center this year, and I think that's fine. People still will see the stores as they park and walk through downtown, going to and from the festival. There will be plenty of traffic that day. We'll see how it goes this year.

It gives students a social environment, a cultural environment. A community.

It gives First Nations a comfort level that their cultural values will have as much weight as economic and ecological values now.

It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

It is important that a good sales staff know which product works on what pest. It is also important for retailers to know when to recommend good cultural practices. Not every problem in the home landscape can be cured from a pesticide bottle.