Jean-Bertrand Aristide Quotes
Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.
Quotes to Explore
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer.
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It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.
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I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.
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People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence, but it's really a celebration of our existence.
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Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.
