Heritage Quotes - Page 25

• I've been really interested in focusing on the aspects of my Russian heritage I'm proud of. I'm actually em­barrassed to tell people I'm Russian, because it's become such an awful place.

  Anton Yelchin

  People, Ems, Proud

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I come from a family and a heritage where you don't really go to therapy unless you're crazy. I want people to know that that's so not the case. It's enriching, and I've learned this new tool.

  Eva Mendes

  Crazy, People, Tools

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want people to leave the theater with a greater understanding of the rich cultural heritage of Pakistan. "Song of Lahore" moves beyond headlines and stereotypes and shows that a vast majority of Pakistanis are not perpetrators of religious violence - they are victims of it. The beautiful cultural heritage of the region belies its image in the West as monolithically religious, intolerant, and violent.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Beautiful, Religious, Song

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't think it's my responsibility, but I definitely try to create my own projects that are Latin-based with a Latin crew and Latin cast. I try to give all my characters Latin names whenever I can and make sure that they are of Latin heritage. But that does not work with every project.

  John Leguizamo

  Latin, Character, Responsibility

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.

  Taylor Branch

  Country, Patriotic, Past

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The German people of today bear no guilt. Why are the German people not permitted the right to defend themselves? Why are the crimes of one group emphasized so greatly, instead of highlighting the great German cultural heritage? Why should the Germans not have the right to express their opinion freely?

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  People, Guilt, Groups

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Diversity, Want

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.102, Penguin

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• I didn't grow up with my dad so I don't know much at all about my heritage.

  Keiynan Lonsdale

  Growing Up, Dad, Grows

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• No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.

  Cal Thomas

  Country, Thinking, Diversity

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• Speaking of childhood fantasy, we were doing a Western, but we were also just hanging out. You work, and you ride and ride and ride, and then, for the next two hours, you look for a place to kick out, in this amazing canyon with so much heritage and so much history.

  James Badge Dale

  Two, Childhood, Next

  Source: collider.com

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• The spiritual heritage of the godly lives on after they are gone.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Godly, Gone

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• Christians are defined not by our heritage, but by our mission; not by our blood, but by His.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Blood, Missions

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• Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.

  Robert Redford

  Running, Culture, Proud

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 6, 2015.

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• On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his days as a slave in Ireland to his work as missionary years later, St. Patrick demonstrated a courage, commitment, and faith that won the hearts and minds of the Irish people. St. Patrick's Day also serves as a time for people of Irish descent from all traditions and religions to honor their native land and shared heritage. Their devotion to family, faith, and community has strengthened our country's character.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Heart, Character

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• I also think you have to be very careful. I mean, the heritage of our company is very strong, and building some of these businesses into leading players is extremely tough. You and I can both build a trading business, and it looks like you're doing OK, and it looks like I'm doing OK. But, really, I am, and you aren't. It comes down to the quality of clients, quality of systems, quality of risk controls.

  Jamie Dimon

  Strong, Mean, Player

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be frogs jumping here in Calaveras County, and in other places, too.

  Robert Stack

  Jumping, California, Historical

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• Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

  Erich Fromm

  Proud, Whole, Cultural Heritage

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I got the job [in Moana], and the next day I was on a plane to New Zealand, where the rest of the team was already doing research, and meeting with different choirs, and sort of really soaking up the music, the musical world of, the musical heritage of this part of the world.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Jobs, Team, Next Day

  Source: deadline.com

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• My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.

  Wally Lamb

  Italian, Proud, Surface

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• Heritage saves no one.

  David Wilkerson

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• If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure out how you put people in possession of their heritage. To do that you have to talk about how they're being taught, and the imagination of community the people who are running our government have.

  Robert Hass

  Running, Government, Imagination

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  Ben Harper

  Life Lesson, Boys, Discovery

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• I wore the gold is symbolic of my African heritage. When my black ancestors was bought over here from Africa they were shackled by their neck, they wrist and they ankles in steel chains. I turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fight. I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

  Mr. T

  Fighting, Price Tag, Black

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian heritage, the practice of offering thanksgiving underscores our unshakable belief in God as the foundation of our Nation and our firm reliance upon Him from Whom all blessings flow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Character, Blessing

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• Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

  Tessa Jowell

  Doubt, Literature, World

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