Hawaiians Quotes - Page 2

• On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, New Year, Easter

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.204, Canongate Books

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• It is the fundamental right of every American, as guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, to worship as he or she pleases... This legislation sets forth the policy of the United States to protect and preserve the inherent right of American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, and Native Hawaiian people to believe, express, and exercise their traditional religions

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Exercise, People

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here darkness doesn't connote gloom and evil. Rather, it's about the inscrutability of the embryonic state; the obscure chaos that reigns before germination.

  Rob Brezsny

  Prayer, Writing, Mean

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.194, Frog Books

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• I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.

  Jason Scott

  Sweet, Eight, Years

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 29, 2005.

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• My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

  Jason Scott

  Mother, Art, Father

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• The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the existing categories. I call these kids the "Keanu Reeves Generation," after the actor who has a Hawaiian father and a Welsh mother.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mother, Father, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Senior, Hipster, Home

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance, which expresses all we see, smell, taste, touch, feel, and experience. It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear.

  Robert Cazimero

  Art, Smell, Joy

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• Just the thought of anything Hawaiian gets me high! I appreciate the good cannabis that people have spent years perfecting but I also enjoy the cheap stuff. I guess you could say I like it all.

  Tommy Chong

  Years, Appreciate, People

  Source: vegascannabismag.com

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• You know what I learned about Hawaiians? They're just blown up Mexicans!

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Knows

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• Wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you don't ever come across as offensive. Nobody sees you as a threat. You see someone in a Hawaiian shirt, and you are like 'this guy is ready to party.'

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Party, Guy, Offensive

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• Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.

  Jack London

  Heart, Hawaii, Stealing

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• Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

  William Finnegan

  Sports, White, Surfing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.

  Violet Duke

  Song, Writing, Anthem

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• How come the Chinese can go where I can't go in America? Englishmen can come and set up a business in white America and do things I can't do.The Puerto Rican, Hawaiians, just about everybody can do more than black people and are more respected.

  Muhammad Ali

  White, America, People

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 17, 1971.

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• Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.

  Steve Martin

  Baseball, Men, Hollywood

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• I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Guy, Decision, Shirts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

  Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

  Believe, Dying, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Moke Kupihea has the strength of conviction necessary to impart to the world a more sensitive account of Hawaiian kahuna heritage, which comes down to him from the priesthood line from which he descends.

  Rubellite Kawena Johnson

  Heritage, World, Lines

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• I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.

  Tyler Posey

  Mean, Italian, Race

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

  Rebecca Mader

  Blessing, People, Friendly

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

  Jason Momoa

  Father, Half, Sacred Things

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• In Blue Crush , we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising the kid sister of one of them. Despite this near-poverty, they look great; there is nothing like a tan and a bikini to overcome class distinctions.

  Roger Ebert

  Crush, Kids, Blue

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, p.76, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I learned the hula, so now I know how to shake my booty Hawaiian style.

  Sanjaya Malakar

  Style, Booty, Hula

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• Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by said force yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representatives and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the Constitutional Sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.

  Liliʻuokalani

  Loss, Islands, Yield

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