One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base.
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away.
The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.
When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.
After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school.
Gay diversity is like the Village People. You can all wear different stupid outfits as long as you sing the same stupid song.
At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.
I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.
I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.
I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral.
At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.
Judge: This is just a dirty little village in the middle of nowhere. Nothing that happens here is really important.
Maj. Cotton: That must be the first 50 in the history of village cricket.
Sulley: Are there kids in that village? Yeti: Oh, sure. Tough kids, sissy kids, kids who climb on rocks...
