Custom & Convention Quotes (2326 Quotes)

In the name of progress, our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

Coach Downing has the ability to chance the perception and change the culture here at Northern Colorado. He will build with upperclassmen, bring in great recruiting classes and definitely outwork the competition.

Gaming is such a huge part of the culture for MTV's audience it makes perfect sense for us to work with Midway, Stan Winston, and Circle of Confusion on bringing The Suffering to life as a feature film.

You can redefine the place of Mars in pop culture. It's close enough to interact with.

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

The dominant (gun) culture of the Palestinian street over the past few years needs some time to change to a culture of protecting order, discipline and the law.

The culture of this city is essential to its well-being. The culture of New Orleans is its identity.

This event positions our city and state as a place that nurtures its creative culture, opens itself to new knowledge and connects to cutting-edge thinkers,

A lot of it has to do with parents who smoke. It was a part of their culture.

Partners or husbands can also play a role in changing our eating habits. Dating someone from another culture is often the start of a whole new relationship...with food. Partners may also influence women to make healthier food choices.

We're hard workers. We're risk takers. It's part of our culture. If we work hard, we'll be successful is what we've learned.

They represented the last great seismic shift in popular culture,

As the years went by and jazz got more popular and social conditions changed, you were able to have jazz as a topic introduced into the music curriculum in universities, ... I think that one thing that hip-hop and jazz have in common is that they are both coming out of the minority subculture and we've faced some of the same problems. They are attacked in different ways . . . but they are a minority in a majority culture, so they are unfortunately discriminated against by the larger portion of the majority community.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

The majority of provisions have been coordinated, and there is the hope that work on it the convention will be completed in the next few days.

At a time when political relations between Japan and China are bad, we should make efforts in the field of culture, We respect your efforts.

What I'm trying to talk about is the preservation of a culture,

Clearly, the fact that a leadership cadre would take that step, that was significant, ... They also became a bridge for him to the broader culture.

Delegates crane their gaze at overhead screens. The producers, using fast-cutting close-up shots, have added the narcissistic touch of allowing delegates to watch themselves watch themselves at a convention of people watching them.

Part of why we were able to get this deal done was because they really want American families traveling in China. They're infatuated with American culture. And with the Olympics being held in Beijing, the Chinese tourism officials need to show that they're open for business.

That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.

I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be a choice between culture and technical training - well-rounded students and graduates will make appropriate choices for their careers, but they must also be trained to make appropriate social choices.

Our cooperation in economy, science and technology, culture, education and tourism sectors were also carried out in an comprehensive manner.

We are very excited to welcome Narcotics Anonymous World Services to Philadelphia in 2013. This convention is also very special to Philadelphia because it is the first convention we have booked since the highly successful PCMA annual meeting held in Philadelphia last month. We expect to book many more groups in the next six months as a result of the positive experiences we know the 1,500 meeting planners, such as Narcotics Anonymous World Services, had while in Philadelphia.

It's still grass roots, ... That's part of the reason we do it and don't surf. It's more fun and rewarding to be a part of than what a lot of the forces of culture are telling me to do with my body and my life.

There were many social issues that offended me and provoked a burning passion in me to speak out. Civil rights, the war in Vietnam, culture intolerance, the environment, abuses of power... I came of age in the sixties.

We ended up building a little Japan with cobblestone streets, bridges, a river, period buildings and antique props in Ventura, ... For the final scenes, we filmed in Kyoto temples that had never allowed filming before. But all throughout, we have tried to pay great respect to Japanese culture. I found the story very daunting to tell, as an American. I especially wanted to honor the profession because a lot of people in the West still don't know what geishas really are. The challenge for me was to bring a beautiful fable to life, to lift the veil on the beauty, joy and heartbreak of being a geisha.

I have respect for Glenn and the enthusiasm that he has. I like the culture that he had in Portland and I liked what I was hearing in the locker room there. He's right, the process has to come first and if we have that, the wins will come later.

It is not the custom with me to keep money to look at

We are not going to be able to change the culture of Spring Fling in one or two years, but in order to preserve its tradition, having students show a sense of responsibility is a step in the right direction.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

The tech sector as a whole has performed so badly this year the Nasdaq has been the worst performer year-to-date. I think a lot of money flew into the 10-year bond during the conventions, during the Olympics, and now people are looking to put their money into the beaten-down sectors, like tech.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

We're here tonight to remember one of the heroes of the Scottish culture, ... Cmdr. Montgomery Scott -- Scotty.

We played pretty darn good after All-Star break. We were about .500 and we set up a culture that enabled us to be pretty good from then on. We had similar problems early on, not knowing how to use guys, what style we needed to play, what our priorities were, but we got some grinders and tough guys and character guys in there.

What I've encountered is a culture of greed and deception.

We are trying to let people know that this community is very family oriented and rich in culture and pride.

There are a million people living there with no running water, no electricity and no sanitation. A very high level of disease, HIV, poverty. Here we have some seriously tragic material, but such spiritual wealth at the same time. In my culture, we go shopping to feel better. Some things are just a little crazy isn't it

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

You have to remember that we are a non-profit and our mission is to bring arts, culture and music to the city. That's why we're here.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

We tried not to violate their culture, we tried not to take too many photos. We promised them we'd return. And we did, this year.

If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line As a man of culture rare, You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms And plant them everywhere. You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases Of your complicated state of mind, The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter Of a transendental kind.

If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.