Marianne Williamson Quotes
The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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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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I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.
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Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.
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It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.
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But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
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I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.
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Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.
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I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.
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The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.
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The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.
