The whole point of making a record was just to be maximum Green Day, just to sort of create our own culture, our own lifestyle. And when that starts to leak over into the mainstream, for me it's really exciting, because you honestly feel like you're contributing something.
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He's coming straight from China, which has a very different lifestyle and culture, and we just need to wait and see how he settles.
Those are the conventions that matter, because they make it very difficult for that party's ticket. There is no surprise that Kerry did well, because nominees have a 99.9 percent chance of doing well at their convention.
I think there's an affinity with the Irish and black culture in many ways. I think tap emerged from Irish dancing when we came over with our hard shoes. Blacks watched it and developed it with hands and body and made it a different thing. There are many ways in how the cultures cross each other.
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.
There may be a housekeeper working in dining services. We would rather invest in them and invest in their education than hire someone else. Who knows They (new hires) may not work out or fit in the Erickson culture.
I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.
We will have a plan as to what we will do differently. We're changing the culture of school,
And two, boys in this culture, and in all cultures all around the world, one of the most humbling things in the world is to be beaten by a girl, or a woman, in anything. I think he articulated that.
Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
We'll be prepared if he announces them -- he or she - early, or announce it as a candidate during the convention, ... I'll be prepared to give them all the options to make it work.
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
The more often I came home, the more trees were gone. It was like my childhood was being eviscerated. There was another OfficeMax or Wal-Mart. This is not my home, I said. I felt in my heart the loss of Turkey Creek. But I think a more dangerous issue is the displacement of our culture.
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.
I've seen a lot of convention centers. But this building is truly special The feel. The light. The vibe is terrific.
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the ''human figure divine'' but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.
You're bound out of 10 bands playing to find one you really enjoy. It's 5 at the most to go see 10 bands. If you're going to do something great for the community, you might as well get some culture out of it.
If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal
Their friends are all speaking English, and it's everywhere in popular culture, which is a big influence on children. Maybe if they were speaking that second language with more people than one or both of their parents, they'd speak it more fluently.
The nature of the culture is such that the changes we want, both in the way the secretariat functions, and the way member governments function, needs to be changed in a substantial way.
At our events, you can advocate a position on a measure or an issue, but you can't advocate for a non-Republican candidate in the middle of a Republican convention.
You could call it a mini-diaspora. The people in New Orleans, the people along the Gulf really had a culture. In many ways, they have been thrown out of the Garden of Eden, if you will. It's a diaspora brought on for people with no resources.
I shall make proposals tomorrow (Monday) morning to begin proceedings to unblock all the goods that are currently held at customs,
It's a turning point in history, the birth of a nation, and the death almost of a culture,
In the American culture, most people live paycheck to paycheck.
Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.
has learned through rap images to identify black male culture with a culture of violence.
This event is proof once again that the culture of the knife and gun is something we should save the people from, and see the way to peace.
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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.
This sale will be a truly exceptional event. With the exception of the great spiritual leaders, his influence on Western culture is more profound than any individual who has lived.
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
It's been a process, over the last couple of years. Things have changed. The atmosphere at BASS has changed. The culture over there has changed. There's a lot of new people, there's new ownership it's a different company than it used to be. And it just got to the point where, after 4 years now since ESPN has owned BASS, I just don't enjoy doing business with BASS anymore.
It's a great honor to be asked by the Republican National Committee to submit a bid. National political conventions are one of the most highly prized events a community can host, but this is also an extraordinary strategic business opportunity and economic development tool that will pay dividends in the Tampa Bay region for years to come.
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
Sure, why not You'll have to change the culture. But we've learned a lot about how to do that.
It was the Koreans' knowledge, not only of the culture, but of the language and the ways of doing business in China, that gave them the upper hand. It wasn't so much the quality of their product as it was the quality of their preparations to make the deals.
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
Life was just has hard, if not harder, for women in small (fishing) towns. Men went off to sea, (women) did everything else. They made the culture they raised the kids.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
If there is one thing I long for above all else, it is that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture, to draw the strongest energies of our thinking and feeling.
In the old culture, the old way of thinking, a rule broken in certain situations was not called. The difference is our guys see it and they call it, regardless of the situation. Do that, you have consistency if you don't, you fall back the other way and it's clutch and grab again.
Over the past half century, as American poetry's specialist audience has steadily expanded, its general readership has declined. Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.
When I went down to Carolina, probably the biggest shock was when I went to the movies, they had an entrance for colored and an entrance for white and they had water fountains for colored and water fountains for white. That was a little bit of a culture shock. . . . (King) did amazing things back then. Unless you were a white supremacist, everybody loved him. It was a difficult time losing him. . . . Fortunately, things kept getting better (because of King's influence).
Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.
I was and I am working on planting the culture of peace among the Palestinian people in order to pave the way for a smooth Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and to move on from there to open negotiations with Israel on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza,
Both sides really get into it. They'd always get into it after the game. And they would throw down. But it was always fists. No guns or knives. I think with the times we live in today, and with the violence being a strong part of our culture, they are trying to calm it down.
Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.
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.