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We now have our own shaded pavilion and are well liked by the visitors and the Renaissance Festival employees.

Gayla Curtis

I think he's a wordsmith. I think he's very good at choosing his words. There's all kinds of literary references. ... The man is just so well-read, just really a Renaissance man.

Pat Burns

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

Larry Summers

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Debbie Allen

One thing that's great is if you're staying downtown at the Renaissance, you don't even have to leave the hotel. The hotel has been fantastic and the people are real good. So far it's been great.

John Clayton

It is a new century, and the United States is in a renaissance of coin design, ... This is a very historic moment. It marks the first time in 65 years that Americans will reach into their pockets and pull out newly designed nickels.

Henrietta Holsman

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Carmen Bambach

Dad was a real Renaissance man and a jack of all trades.

David Martin

He was a brilliant man, a Renaissance man in a lot of ways.

Stan Tiner

It's almost an industrial renaissance happening up there.

Robbie Freeman

Hotel food has gone through a renaissance. Hotel food used to be bland and boring, but that's not true anymore.

Jason Weaver

In T-Y Park [Hollywood], they put it along the fence and it smells so good for so long. But it's not an area where people walk. The Renaissance Festival at Quiet Waters Park [Deerfield Beach] also uses the mulch in February. They put it around the edges of the grounds.

Pat Raglin

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

Thomas Reid

We look for UC Merced's presence, its faculty, its research and its alumni to start an economic renaissance for the Valley.

Gerald Parsky

We think we're beginning the renaissance here.

Lucas Piatt

To have three separate $1 million donations to the campaign before the official public announcement of the Renaissance Campaign is truly astounding.

Joel Wohl

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.

Ben Kingsley

His career proved that he is one of the great renaissance figures of today, whether it's music or writing or talking.

Art Linkletter

It's more of an Italian Renaissance feel, but we've added some American feel to it. Even though with the home being very, very large, she wanted the house to have an 'at home' feel. Truly she designed it for happiness. I don't think people will feel intimidated by it. It's very homey and comfortable.

Carolyn Jennings

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.

Mark Rothko

The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.

Jonathan Cain

I think if you were seeking a name for the college of arts and sciences ... you really couldn't imagine a better name than the name of Thomas Harriot. There, you have this renaissance man, somebody who wouldn't have recognized the boundary between the arts and the sciences.

Robert Fox

We expect (contributions in) 2006 to be larger than ever before. People are recognizing that Southern Nevada has certain cultural, educational and community institutions that are vibrant players in philanthropy. We're seeing a philanthropic renaissance here.

Bret Bicoy

He's really a renaissance man and a big supporter of the arts and sciences. He's an art collector, quite a unique man. Since the big gift in 1998, he has been supporting us on an annual basis.

Patricia Jones

[Long ago, in his biography of seminal jazz composer Jelly Roll Morton, my great-uncle Alan Lomax equated the city's contribution to American music with Florence's involvement in the arts of the Renaissance. But it was another city in Italy that seems closer to the mark now.] We've lost our city, ... I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.

Marc Morial

It was like discovering the Sistine chapel if you didn't know there had been a Renaissance - like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on the finger of God touching the hand of Adam.

William Saturno

We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa,".

Thabo Mbeki

We've got this renaissance going. And a little progress is being made.

Rosemary Sansone

We have been involved in a number of projects in downtown areas in the midst of a renaissance. We understand these kind of projects.

Larry Throneburg

Let the Renaissance in the city begin.

Lucas Piatt

Renaissance of the liberal arts.

Robert Weisbuch

We want the Renaissance Center to serve as a driving force in Detroit's long-awaited renaissance.

Jack Smith

It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

Karl Urban

There's an awful lot of positive things happening with our downtown. If there's some negative to offset it, it almost always points back to negative publicity surrounding that mall. The longer we allow that to be an issue, the more people will think the renaissance is still a ways off.

Paul Jadin

We always tried to be sensitive with the land acquisition proposals. All the land is acquired for Gilmore School and the Magnet School, which was a much larger land acquisition and was to be our Renaissance Project.

Anthony Dragona

You look around at Ogden, and ... there is a renaissance here. And it's not just the leaders, but the people of Ogden are working to turn this place back to its glory days. Downtown, it just feels right.

Jeff Petersen

Maybe those of the Renaissance.

Geoffrey Beene

It's not [just] a question of it being a creative renaissance, ... It's about South Florida being a place where things happen. The city is finally getting the credit it deserves.

Michael Goldberg

Orlando's experiencing a true renaissance in its downtown, a place where you can live, work and play.. with almost $2 billion of new construction, and the catalyst for it all was the Premiere Trade Plaza.

Buddy Dyer

Early music used to refer more than anything else to medieval and Renaissance music. Now it also includes baroque and classical music. While the EMI's main purpose is to study early or 'ancient' music, ancient music now goes from about 1200 to 1820.

Michael Mccraw

He was a broadcasting icon and true renaissance man -- in every sense of the word -- whose loss will be felt in many circles. Our thoughts and prayers are with Bill and his family.

Michael Crowley

In that way it really is like you didn't know the Renaissance ever happened?you have no knowledge that anyone ever painted anything in Florence in the 16th century, then all of sudden you see a Michelangelo.

William Saturno

Richter's piece points out that meaning is always contingent. This mural, in its attempt to locate and fix meaning, points out the inability of people to see anything beyond their own frame of reference. An electron microscope is just another frame of reference, just the way Renaissance two-point perspective is.

Tim Burgard

It demonstrated that maybe junior hockey, properly presented, was a great entertainment sports property. It marked a renaissance and awareness of junior hockey across the country.

David Branch

When we brought David Valentine in three years ago as a classroom teacher, I knew we had found a top-notch Renaissance guy.

John Kellogg

He's thinking of [his subjects] as ordinary people who are transformed by a touch from God, rather than the Renaissance depiction where people are glowing because of it.

Eleanor Harvey

I will orchestrate a Hartford renaissance.

Eddie Perez