Bassam Tibi Quotes
Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
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The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action - common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.
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I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
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No gentleman ever has any money.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist.
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I think it's reality that Iran is going to have influence in Iraq. All elements of Iraq accepted that.
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A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.
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You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.
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Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure.
