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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Each pineapple plant produces only one fruit per year. It can take up to two years for the pineapple to ripen, and it's important to wait, because once it's picked, it can't ripen any further. The unripe pineapple is not only horrible tasting but poisonous.
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The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
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I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.
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Every day is a new journey for me, and I feel like, in my lifetime, I've been blessed to experience such a lot.
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At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.
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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.
