Common Threads Quotes

• America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Color, America

  1984 Launching his 'rainbow coalition' at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 17 Jul.

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• We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Teamwork, Kwanzaa, Community

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• We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

  Maya Angelou

  Color, Kwanzaa, Diversity

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• The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Sibling, Character

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• I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Mind, Young, Has Beens

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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• Find your purpose by excavating and tying together the common threads of your happy memories by focusing on the emotions you felt.

  Mastin Kipp

  Memories, Together, Purpose

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• I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most.

  Marissa Mayer

  Thinking, Two, People

  "How I Made It: Marissa Mayer, Google's champion of innovation and design" by Jessica Guynn, articles.latimes.com. January 2, 2011.

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• Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the ITU, WIPO and the WMO. At first sight, there may not seem to be much common ground between CERN and, say, the World Meteorological Organization, but scratch the surface, and you'll soon find a common thread. All of these organizations have a vocation to stimulate technological innovation, and together we're stronger.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Sight, Agreement, Organization

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• The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from.

  Poh Ling Yeow

  Love, Culture, Matter

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• While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives.

  Antonio Guterres

  Courage, Different, Stories

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• Every TV show I've ever made, every game I've ever built, and every book I've ever published has had the common thread of building the biggest, brightest spotlight imaginable and then flipping it around to shine on you.

  Elan Lee

  Book, Shine On, Tv Shows

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• So often, we believe we are alone in the privacy of our fantasies, but that is a delusion as well - and perhaps the most dangerous kind. For in letting ourselves forget about the common threads of our innermost wishes, we erode our foundations and lose the keystone of our souls.

  Tiffany Baker

  Believe, Soul, Wish

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• I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

  Merlin Olsen

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

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• I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

  Edgar Winter

  Love, Running, Rocks

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• Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.

  Dax Shepard

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.

  David Byrne

  Song, Artist, Cds

  "David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 18, 2007.

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• Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

  John McCain

  Country, Unique, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

  Gordon Smith

  Business Deals, Media, America

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• There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma.

  Drew Brees

  Successful, Nfl, Focus

  "A Half Dozen Questions for Drew Brees". Interview with John B. Thompson, www.gq.com. April 23, 2010.

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• The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Self, Ideas

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• I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We have a shared mission around poverty, and I focus on that, because we do a lot with the Catholic Church around poverty alleviation. I'm always looking for: what is the common thread? What do we care about? What do we believe in? We believe in women around the world. We believe in all lives have equal value.

  Melinda Gates

  Believe, Focus, Catholic

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.

  Annie Gottlieb

  Thinking, Animal, Rights

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• I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them.

  Grace Helbig

  Thinking, People, Role Models

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• I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

  Ednita Nazario

  Love, Family, Children

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• When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the "conqueror" observes and continues to rule.

  Brian Day

  Health, Government, Firsts

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