Alfie Kohn Quotes
Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
Quotes to Explore
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
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For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
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St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
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I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.
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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
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When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
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But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
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From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
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I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.
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It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
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I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.
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I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.
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We're not quite mainstage material. We're more like outhouse material!
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I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
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I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.
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Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
