"One has to give minority groups a kind of reward, an emotional reward, that it is worthwhile assimilating to this particular majority group. And if this majority group looks down on itself ... If a minority group is not given some pride in assimilating to the culture of another group then the process is very difficult."

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Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

Norbert Elias

#Pride Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.”

Source : "Degas: An Intimate Portrait (Technical Details)". Book by Ambroise Vollard (1927) translated by Randolph T. Weaver (p. 70), 1986.
“Then never less alone than when alone.”

Source : 'Human Life' (1819) l. 755
“If you take a movie like Easy Rider which everyone counts as the beginning of New Hollywood, that is a big movement. And then, when you really dissect that film and the people that were behind that movie, you realize that it has Roger Corman written all over it. Easy Rider is a hybrid film, taking The Trip and The Wild Angels and making a new explosion. And the people that were making it, guess what, they were all [people who had worked with Roger Corman].”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants. I'm kind of in a dream state.”
“I love Champagne and I love to drink it out of any kind of beautiful glass.”
“I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.”
“It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services.”
“Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.”

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