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Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance. -- Anna Lindh
Singing in Hindi is nice but restrictive. Regional languages are more rhythmic, have a different tone and sound, making it more interesting. -- Shreya Ghoshal
During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning. -- Adam Riess
Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies. -- Jean Charest
The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious. -- Joschka Fischer
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle. -- Robert Morgan
The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability. -- Hillary Clinton
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more. -- Rick Moody
I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator. -- Sam Walton
In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy. -- James Chanos
We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. -- Stephen Harper
Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level. -- Tariq Ramadan
Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times. -- Jaquelin T. Robertson
Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. -- Ahmet Davutoglu
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces. -- John Negroponte
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism. -- Martin Filler
Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems. -- Tariq Ramadan
Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized. -- Ban Ki-moon
But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability. -- Kevin Rudd
In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it. -- Annie Jacobsen
I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. -- William Hague
I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what we have, there would have been many regional brands that would have succeeded. But I'm not sure there would have been a national brand of the scope of Starbucks. -- Howard Schultz
My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency of the human spirit - the skill and insight of the writer lifting the parochial novel above the level of regional concern. Making it personal, national, and universal. -- Theresa Breslin
When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition. -- Wangari Maathai
I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels. -- Mithun Chakraborty
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them. -- Rob Sheffield
The regional voice is the universal voice. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Place is character. And all writing is regional. -- John Dufresne
Local and regional food systems are about opportunity. -- Tom Vilsack
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. -- Malcolm de Chazal
Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability. -- Ehud Barak
My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham. -- Chris Cleave
Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region. -- Joe Tex
After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater. -- Timothy Simons
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past -- Khaleda Zia
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past. -- Khaleda Zia
Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly. -- Robert A. Brady
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map. -- Richard Ford
Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly. -- Robert A. Brady
India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it. -- Gary Ackerman
I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis. -- Reed Hastings
There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine. -- Walter Darby Bannard
In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support. -- Juan Manuel Santos
The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration. -- Mo Ibrahim
My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl. -- Jessica Savitch
I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive. -- John Howard
The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon. -- Russ Carnahan
Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism -- Walid Muallem
I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister. -- Emma Bonino
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare. -- Alan Ayckbourn
Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation. -- Victor Ponta
Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience. -- Scotty Cameron
I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center. -- Anna Camp
Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus. -- Luc Montagnier
I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence. -- David Almond
If regional associations are created, they should work on the basis of WTO norms, on the WTO basis. -- Vladimir Putin
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate. -- Amish Tripathi
One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important. -- Robert Zoellick
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi. -- Ferran Adria
I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies. -- Ian Ziering
All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability. -- Ariel Sharon
I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs. -- Michael Burgess
Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing. -- Vladimir Putin
Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament. -- Wade Clark Mackey
High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path. -- Anthony Albanese
I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs. -- Michael Burgess
Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower. -- Lilia Shevtsova
When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process. -- Annie Parisse
I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies; one catches it through unprotected thought intercourse with the stirred-up concept of the infinite. -- Peter Sloterdijk
We have very close humanitarian contacts [with China], wide-ranging youth exchanges, educational and regional contacts, and all of them continue to develop. -- Vladimir Putin
The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you. -- Tony Wilson
We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability. -- Li Peng
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. -- Lord Robertson
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. -- Lord Robertson
There's this false notion that this is a regional phenomenon, when in fact every state in the union has hardcore rednecks. No exceptions. -- Carl Hiaasen
Pretty soon, we should see a few large regional blocs dominating global trade. The ones that lower trade barriers faster will grow faster. -- Daniel Altman
I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors. -- Charles Kimbrough
We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors. -- Anna Lindh
A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures. -- Akhmad Kadyrov
There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema, are exploring some really bold themes. -- Anurag Kashyap
Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not. -- Chris Matthews
We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school. -- Mamata Banerjee
Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. -- Todor Zhivkov
The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place. -- John Dufresne
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages. -- Amish Tripathi
Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless. -- Nayan Chanda
U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups. -- Samuel P. Huntington
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal. -- James Welch
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope. -- Jean-Jacques Annaud
We believe that we could do a great deal to neutralise regional conflicts. Also, for example, to continue joint activities in space, for peaceful civilian purposes. -- Vladimir Putin
Federalism should be able to maintain unity among all. But this does not mean that we should boycott regional voices and the voices of ethnic groups. -- Khil Raj Regmi
Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran. -- Stephen Kinzer
The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films. -- Arin Paul
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out -- Tommy Shaw
Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together. -- Elio Di Rupo
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia authorities face the complicated task of stabilising and reviving a devastated economy after years of regional conflicts, international isolation and economic mismanagement. -- Stanley Fischer
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out. -- Tommy Shaw
By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting. -- Brad Pitt
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end. -- John Cleese
Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together, -- Elio Di Rupo
To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV. -- Jim Parsons
To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and local slaughter facilities. -- Tom Vilsack
I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl. -- Patti Stanger
India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency. -- Shashi Tharoor
Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance -- Farouk of Egypt
When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it. -- Ian Mckellen
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The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed. -- Gijs de Vries
Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level. -- Joel Plaskett
Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street. -- Rick Wagoner
Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street. -- Rick Wagoner
It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security. -- Nancy Pelosi
I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin. -- Edward Abbey

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