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I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can. There are cultural differences between when I was a teen and now, but emotions - anger, angst, love - are the same.

Japan does not understand very well that one of its proudest cultural achievements is in film,

Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows the music. It's always going to be a part of it.

I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You will definitely have to interview hard for cultural fit, but the best talent isn't cheap.

is an excellent example of our two countries working together to conserve and protect some of the world's most important scientific and cultural heritage.

is asking us to organize beyond political boundaries, religious differences, cultural differences.

Pennsylvania has a rich cultural heritage and we continue to build on that foundation, ... This year's talented and visionary awardees represent the significant contributions made to our Commonwealth by the members of Pennsylvania's cultural community.

Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.

Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).

Our goal is to put together a unique trip at an affordable price. We try hard to get exchanges going with students. There?s a clear cultural value. We?re part of the scenery, not tourists on a bus. It?s a person-to-person relationship.

Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.

Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.

Regardless of how you feel about whether Plan B should be available in the community, the fact is the FDA decision should be based on science, not cultural controversy,

Our partnership with the 2006 Chicago Games will include cross-promotional opportunities, discounts for HRC members to participate as athletes and cultural performers, and cooperative events both in advance and during the Gay Games. We're very excited at this opportunity and encourage others to join us in welcoming the world to Chicago this July.

Part of our stated mission is that the Tyler Museum of Art exists as an educational and cultural center to enrich the lives of East Texas citizens. In addition to hosting tours for thousands of students each year, and working with area teachers to enrich their curricula, we host this exhibition to encourage and promote young talent.

Part of my surprise is that British culture is much more aligned with American and Australian culture, and this is a cultural and social issue, not a financial issue. Part of my surprise is that Wimbledon is the last one standing.

Our (nation's) cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

People have very different perspectives and very different life experiences based on their ethnicity. When you put them in close quarters in a situation designed to highlight cultural and racial differences, you realize they don't really understand each other very well at all.

People have to recognize that the arts are a major industry and need to be at the table for the recovery plan, ... There is no way for these local economies to recover unless we invest in the cultural life. Culture was Louisiana's second-biggest economy, right after oil. These organizations have suffered enormous losses.

Stanford has been fortunate to partner with Apple in a project that allows us to share the intellectual and cultural life of the university with our alumni.

My wife had been teaching, on and off, since the early '70s and, when we moved here in 1983, she restarted her teaching career in Fairfax County, ... I got into Northern Virginia's Cultural Arts program, doing storytelling at school assemblies.

Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

I won't say they're all intolerant, ... Some of them are adopting our approach to cultural communities.

I think he would have been so pleased, not just for himself but for the tribe and for his community. Bravery is a cultural value for us. Humility is a cultural value. So, in a way, it's kind of fitting because there's all these other soldiers who wanted him to have it.

I think, frankly, it's more of a cultural change than it is an enforcement issue,

It has potential within downtown to be the major shopping, entertainment and cultural district for the whole state. Most cities don't have that opportunity.

Johnny Cash was not only a giant in our business, but he was one of those guys who had grown to become a cultural icon in America. People associated him with values that I think they held near and dear to their hearts.

Mall of America gets more visitors than Disney World, Grand Canyon and Graceland combined. People go to Bloomington just to see the mall, ... It's a sad commentary that commercial outlets like malls are more popular than historic and cultural sites or places of natural beauty. But it's one thing Americans do very well: consume.

Managing water is as much cultural as technical, reflecting how peoples and communities relate themselves to nature.

Management reform is not a one-night stand. Management reform is forever. What we really need is a cultural revolution in terms of reform at the United Nations,

We (Northwest flight attendants) have been going across the Pacific for 70 years and offering excellent service. Our (plane) loads are full. We continue to have the highest loads because of excellent flight attendant service,which includes cultural sensitivity and language skills.

The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.

The advisory boards let the companies understand some of the cultural aspects of doing business in those countries, the regulatory environment and the protocols. Within months we can help build networks and credibility that would otherwise take years to develop.

The advent of a cultural center would help us greatly.

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

The annual country study program, called the 'Year of ...,' has attracted regional and national attention. Over the last 20 years, the number of international faculty and students has soared, as have the numbers of our faculty and students who have had international experiences. Similarly, the campus community has become much more diverse in its racial and cultural representation.

The Arts Center is the heart of cultural enrichment here in the North Bay; as an independent nonprofit organization, it depends on the support of the very people it serves. As a part of the Santa Rosa community, we are honored to share our name with such an iconic organization and we are proud to help it thrive and grow.

That's what gives me the most confidence about its return. The cultural provenance of New Orleans stands out in a way that isn't true of other parts of the South. Having this identity that people care about could be critical, especially since there are events where the outside world looks in.

That's what gives me the most confidence about its return, ... The cultural provenance of New Orleans stands out in a way that isn't true of other parts of the South. Having this identity that people care about could be critical, especially since there are events where the outside world looks in.

I was nervous last time, likely because I shouldered a cultural mission for reinvigorating the Chinese-language film industry back then.

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

While the combined entity will have a large global footprint, we think cultural and managerial integration of the two companies could pose a challenge longer term.

Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.

You'll be amazed by what they can come up with when they compare the different cultural versions of the same story. They can point out similarities and differences in the characters and plot.

You just can't fit a Cadillac in the India Cultural Center.

Will the new population demand that the cultural feel of the French Quarter, the Garden District and the rest stay the same? ... Or will they be OK with a lot of new shopping malls taking over? Who knows?

We can't escape what we do as a product of culture. We are a cultural being; we can't hunt as a bear or a mountain lion does. The need is no longer present.

We were making significant progress to realize the goals set some 20 years ago for an arts center that promoted the region's cultural groups and served a diverse community.

We were looking for a unique cultural experience for the kids, a soccer culture, someplace where soccer is it, and soccer is definitely it in Italy.

We hope this agreement will foster an environment in which London and Beijing can become closer business partners and develop a deeper cultural understanding through the exchange of tourists and students.

We don't do this all for the cultural bridge. We don't think about the aspect of Japan and the United States. We just do this for fun.

We expect 17 million-plus visitors annually through Victory Plaza. The Victory Media Network will offer intriguing and engaging video entertainment. Our programming will be rich with cultural and artistic content -- but continually changing in order to keep it different and fresh. To do that, we'll be showcasing film and digital art from local and national artists, as well as Dallas museums and galleries.

We have a good record of accomplishment and are very proud of what we are doing to promote our cultural heritage. When people come in, it's hard for them to let go. They reminisce; look at the value of what we are sharing. We cover a gamut of generations.

We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommodate them in different ways. My father speaks different to my mum. My mum speaks different to my grandmother. Everybody speaks different, so you find you start tweaking your language to be more accessible to people.

We've learned about the different cultural dances and dress. And the food is great, too.

We have to look at our global interests. But we don't want to engage in American cultural imperialism.

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

We have always felt that the fellowships in question were but a small part of an overall graduate program that provides opportunities for thousands of our students, from every imaginable cultural background, to pursue graduate degrees while working at Southern Illinois University.

We have the Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission which translates and publishes our press releases into Latino magazines.

Today's Main Street is missing places where parents can bring their children, not just come to drink and dine and stroll around. There's not the variety or the cultural development. It's almost exclusively student-oriented. The city is ignoring the needs of longtime residents.

We can balance the environment and we can balance Australia's cultural heritage,

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a landmark project that is part of the government's drive to develop the country's western regions. It will benefit the development of Tibet's communications and tourism, and promote economic and cultural exchanges between Tibet and other parts of China.

We are delighted to set up our European regional HR BPO operations in Krakow. There are strong economic, cultural and language connections between Poland, Germany and other European countries, so we expect the Krakow center to serve as an attractive resource for our global and European clients.

well-functioning markets have no innate tendency to promote excellence in any form. They offer no resistance to forces making for a descent into cultural barbarity or moral depravity.

Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.

Wheeler's Luck is strongly promoted as a New Zealand play and in the past that may have been downplayed in the publicity, and that it is now so much a part of the marketing shows we are getting over our cultural cringe factor.

We are not just representing the cultural magazines here, but also an investigative journalistic position which is part of the classic public sphere.

When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.

We have learned the hard wayand I mean the million-dollar hard wayto look at the cultural fit and performance level of frontline staff, because there is never another time in the history of the company when you can choose your own workforce.

We are looking at the many, varied needs of a vast society in India. We want to take into account not only the appropriate technologies, but the economic, cultural and social factors that determine value for our customers.

There is a very strong cultural manifestation which is very unusual. It is also quite common to have one member of a family in the middle class while the rest is dirt poor.

The project is a major part of the drive to build socialist new countryside. It's very important for improving rural cultural life.

Timing is essential in career moves and often cultural climate can impact companies based in rural areas. For instance, someone who has grown up in Manhattan who loves the theater, opera, and New York Yankees might have a hard time picturing themselves in a small city atmosphere.

We are more than just a gallery demonstrating the 'cutting edge' of contemporary arts and crafts. We are a place where art is alive and provocative -- a stimulating cultural center taking appreciation of art to a new level in the region.

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

The day was a real eye-opener and cultural stretch for me.

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years.

What we're trying to do is get the students of ISU some experience out in the field and let them observe a number of different ecosystems. ... They get a scientific experience, a cultural experience, and for lack of a better word, a personal experience.

We're trying to integrate the two buildings into one cultural arts center.

When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide.

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

While our military forces have displayed extraordinary precision and restraint in deploying arms -- and apparently in securing the Oil Ministry and oil fields -- they have been nothing short of impotent in failing to attend to the protection of (Iraq's) cultural heritage.

While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets on with it.

We consider this a cosmopolitan store. We have Indian food, of course, but also Asian, Spanish and Mediterranean. Our store lets us bring in a little bit of cultural diversity here, and people are liking it.

There is a certain reverence for the sociopath as a major cultural type in American society, along with the frontiersman, the puritan and the outlaw.

We salute you for your steadfastness in maintaining the faith of your ancestral tradition, as well as your love for the beautiful, spiritual, cultural and folk traditions in which you reverently persevere. Truly it is out of respect and love for the memory of your forebears that you have clung to your ecclesiastical and ancestral customs.

Why are there so many highly educated people? The answer is this area can attract them. Seattle is a nice place to live. For its size, it has a lot of cultural amenities as well as natural amenities, and we're fortunate to have some pretty interesting companies, Boeing and Microsoft being just two of them.

This town is so attractive for art types. It's the easygoing lifestyle with a cultural cast to it.

We believe that an alliance ... or minority investment with option for increased ownership would enable Home Depot to participate in China's economic development without the difficulties associated with navigating its political and cultural challenges alone.

There are scenes in such programs that stray from the customs and cultural practices of our people in the East, ... help instill good values among the younger generation.

You have language issues and cultural issues, and sometimes it makes the communication a real challenge for them, and I know for me. You are in this intense competitive situation where emotions are at a pretty high level, and you're dealing with a certain amount of stress, so it?s a big challenge.

When you have the opportunity to work with people like Mark Burnett and Steven Spielberg, artists who've redefined this business, you jump at the chance, In this age of digital cameras, cell phones with cameras and the Internet - with hundreds of thousands of people creating their own movies at home every day - the concept of this series is completely relevant, tapping into a cultural phenomenon as it happens.

While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.

Without earmarks, the Canal Walk, which is now an official cultural district in Indianapolis and a destination place for residents and visitors, would likely not have been possible.

The reason we are making the request is because of the rich cultural heritage concerning the integration of our school. We were the first-ever school to integrate below the Mason-Dixon line, and we want to honor our school's and our community's heritage.

'Fine casual' means taking the cultural priorities that fine dining, at its best, believes in.

Both the pre-Hispanic structure and the Holy Week rituals are part of our cultural legacy, so we have to look for a way to protect both cultural values.

We selected a more cultural curriculum. These classes do not count in Thailand, and she will still be in 11th grade next year when she goes back home.

We see the Silk Road as a symbol of cultural discovery and exchange, and the project uses artistic expression to nurture creativity similar to what was found on the road in ancient times. We're trying to serve as a common resource for musicians drawing on both ancient and current civilizations along the road.