Custom & Convention Quotes (2326 Quotes)


    Finally it is possible to battle with players from around the world online at Metal Gear Solid from the comfort of your own home. For the online mode, the essence of Metal Gear Solid is retained, with additions of various online rules and original stages. With the continued growth of the culture of Metal Gear Solid, this new online addition, I believe will bring a new way to enjoy and experience the world. I hope fans will look forward to experiencing it.

    I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.

    I was quite taken with her, because I'd never seen the African influence in dance with that kind of strength and artistic power. It impacted my soul. No one had reached those heights. She was the definitive black dance company. She moved among the highest intellectuals of black culture, all the writers and painters and literary folk.

    In some of these communities we've faced some culture barriers where there is a lack of trust in government, a natural suspicion, in addition to language barriers. That's why we've established these partnerships with people who have the trust of the community.

    The Chinese government will follow the relevant stipulations of the convention to improve its related laws and regulations, strictly control smoking in public spaces and strengthen regulation of tobacco production and business activities.



    Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

    It's actually from the Sermon on the Mount, and then it was picked up by John Winthrop, who was the leader of the Puritan Great Migration in 1630, and gave a sermon in which he says 'we shall be as a city on the hill, and the eyes of all nations will be upon us.' And it inspired me to look back at people who have been relegated to the second rank of historical players, but who I felt were important in terms of the ideals they introduced to our culture.


    I will always recommend an on-site meeting to see what a client's office and culture is like. Building a relationship with a temporary placement agency is important. Many of our clients are 10-plus years relationships. They say blue and we know what shade.




    To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent. . .


    Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.


    I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

    Culture is a way of thinking, a set of values, a belief system that influences our behavior. It's really a combination of things. It can come from our ethnic background, our religion and society as a whole.




    But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

    We want to retain the people we have, we want people to come here and have conventions, we want people to stay here when they graduate from college.


    It's somewhat difficult. The culture and language difficulties have been pretty much accounted for in that we have a Russian-speaking officer who has been able to break down those language barriers,





    Video Games Live is a milestone in the evolution of games as an art form in world culture. Featuring VGL at GDC fits in perfectly with our goals of provoking innovation among game creators, and producing ideas that have dramatic reach into the greater entertainment audience.

    We want to make sure that folks know that our city and its culture are on the rebound. They'll see how much work there is to be done, but they'll also see that there's great potential for New Orleans' future.

    The concept is a step forward from Gorillaz' 2002 Brits appearance, where characters from the videos appeared on flat-screen televisions. People have really accepted the Gorillaz world, ... and the fact that it is a dig at celebrity. As the characters say, they are the ultimate manufactured band, so what better way to rebel against celebrity culture.

    The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

    You could argue that putting it near the convention center and the two major hotels down there, and the environment of the Strip, would make sense. I don't think that's an idle thought.



    There's no politics. It's very straight-forward. This is the kind of culture we want to have - no (expletive), no politics - just working together to improve this company as fast as we can.



    Along the way somewhere I got interested in the idea of church and culture, and why the church is so suspicious of the arts, and vice versa. I think lessons we learn as we reflect on theological framework for bioethical issues have ramifications in other spheres.

    The US is still recognized as a leading place to do business, the home of desirable brands and popular culture. But its governance, its cultural heritage and its people are no longer widely respected or admired by the world.

    It's pretty special. It's nice to celebrate a milestone like this. If more people and more companies really understand what's happening, that can help you grow. This is part of our mission. It's part of our culture.

    My vision for the future of the BBC has three parts a bold new program and content strategy based above all around the idea of excellence a transformation of the BBC into a state-of-the art digital broadcaster and an irreversible shift in the culture of the BBC toward simplicity, opportunity and creativity,



    Dave is certainly critical of the loss of dignity of the human person and the trivialization of human life in our contemporary culture. That will certainly be a theme in his lecture,

    Shelley has shown solid leadership within Tyco and in his previous roles. We look forward to his continued contributions to further strengthen the culture of excellence at Tyco. Under Shelley's leadership, we plan to build on the operational excellence success we've experienced over the past three years.





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