There is not a concentration of historic structures in America, let alone the world, like those in New Orleans. The architecture is as important to the culture of New Orleans as the food, the jazz, and the festivals. To lose it would be unimaginable.
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I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
I think this is a good thing because it makes people aware of what's going on with black culture. A lot of times Black History Month is overlooked, so it's nice to see it recognized.
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
In some cultures, the sight of a woman's nose and mouth are considered irresistibly seductive. In others, the soles of a person's feet are perceived as disgusting beyond comprehension. In mainstream American culture, sex is obscene but violence is television fare for preschoolers. What is acceptable in swimwear is unacceptable in a restaurant. In an elevator we condone contact that would otherwise be actionable incriminal court. Rules of behavior are not absolute we negotiate them constantly.... Immodesty, indecency, obscenity are cultural factors, mutually agreed upon and negotiable. We are enjoined to 'cover our nakedness,' but there's considerable disagreement about what our nakedness is. Our noses and mouths The bottoms of our feet A lack of trust or mutual respect.
The chain of cultural memory has broken down. I get kids in my class whose mothers and fathers didn't have a clue about cooking, and they're lost. There's a gap and it's just part of the culture.
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening of custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving poor... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
New Orleans is coming back, ... Our culture is coming back. I want to listen to jazz. I'm tired of listening to helicopters.
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
I think the Latino community in San Diego County has been segregated out of the political culture. Even when you have one or two elected officials here, it hasn't made a dent in the overall sense. It is not part of the political culture of this city.
The misinformation campaign promoted by the pro- abortion camp is unbelievable. Scientists know that a human being begins at conception. Yet many in their community, the media and the culture of death proponents deny the facts in order to dupe women and advance the body count.
I agree that the fear of American cultural imperialism is shared by many people, and I agree with your point about the invasive nature of television culture. But I wouldn't draw the next inference that this is negative and therefore it must be stopped. I feel that one should address this influence in a way that takes away the negative edge through a positive counter-response. This way, you reinforce and reaffirm your conviction in the inner values. You harness those beliefs and develop them with a greater degree of self-awareness. That's the kind of response people should have, instead of rejecting technology.
He's pretty much engaged in what we have in place today, and also the culture of integrity, the leadership culture we want to have in the company,
At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.
The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses
They walked into the convention very unified and, in the process, drove away a lot of conservative Democrats.
These conventions are staged for television, but it's not very good television, and most people are watching more interesting programs. I think a lot of people are going to form their impressions on how the party did by front-page headlines, by the pictures on the front page, by some of the analysis. By what's in the paper.
It's good that we can continue to get players from Central. When a kid stays here, he will be around his family and friends and not have to adjust to the culture of another location.
Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
I sequenced the album like a radio station. Around midday, you'll hear more of the commercial hip-hop stuff. When the nighttime comes, you'll hear more of the depth of the records, when the beat stops and we get into the culture and the conscious vibe and the reggae.
I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
to date, there is no specific intelligence that tells us or indicates to us that the convention itself would be subject to an attack.
That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.
Our number one economic development issue is housing. Our critical industries health care, manufacturing, the convention business need workers, but there is this huge bottleneck because of the lack of housing.
They're living a real short moment in their lives and some become obsessive. They can't let go of the culture.
It's a good thing and it's actually the second time that I'll be there. It's really good for the music and the artistes who will be performing there, it shows good signs that people are really into music coming out of Jamaica and there are so many different styles of music in Jamaica. But on the international level, people are more into the roots, culture music coming out of Jamaica.
Montana has a very narrow line-item veto as defined by the constitution and presented by the Constitutional Convention, ... I don't believe the governor can strike a condition without striking an appropriation.
When we allowed people to cross the Crescent City Connection because people were dying in the convention center, that was a decision based upon people, ... Now, if they made a decision based upon assets, to protect assets over people, and to have attack dogs and armed people with machine guns, then they're going to have to live with that.
I think the conclusion of the convention brought a big sigh of relief. Rhetoric wasn't as bad as it could have been, and there was no terrorist attack, when the FBI and others had warned that was a possibility.
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
As we are teaching we are very respectful of their learning styles and their culture. They are more circular learners, learning a little bit of everything at once. We are more linear learners. We learn one thing completely and then move on to the next.
With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.
I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
The concert and clinic aren't just for jazz fans, they're for music fans. We want people in the community to be exposed to music of a different culture.
It's very unfortunate. The city of Wilmington has been working hard the last 10 years to bring the convention center to fruition. ... Now it's in jeopardy...
In the building of a harmonious socialist society, the development of an advanced socialist culture is of much importance as it can provide a strong ideological guarantee, as well as powerful spiritual support, for our efforts,
There were four or five big tours that went out last year. I got asked to do all of them. There was a Heaven 17 one and a Culture Club one.
Every time I return to Taiwan, I am met with various election campaigns with pos ters of candidates everywhere. I hope Taiwan can make more efforts in culture and life.
The Holy Father spoke not only to the Catholic community, but to men and women of conscience on every continent. Most notable may be his courage in standing for a culture of life, as well as defying communism and standing in solidity with those opposed to that great evil.
From the time we knew we were at the Pole, Commander Peary scarcely spoke to me... It nearly broke my heart... that he would rise in the morning and slip away on the homeward trail without rapping on the ice for me, as was the established custom.
The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth.
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.