"Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'---a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop of macaroni salad, a piece of mahi-mahi, and a side of kimchi. Many different tastes share the plate, but none of them lose their individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely 'local' cuisine. This is also, I believe, what America is at its best---a whole greater than the sum of it's parts."

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Source : Alan Brennert (2009). “Honolulu”, p.430, Macmillan

Alan Brennert

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #America Quotes

“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.”

Source : Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
“Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily”
“It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an eternity, that one awkward kiss, and it spoke silent volumes of bewildered honesty. The moment that followed was too fragile for words.”

Source : Lynn Flewelling (2010). “Stalking Darkness: The Nightrunner Series”, p.443, Spectra
“You are not responsible for everyone's happiness.”

Source : "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.”
“I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.”
“[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them”
“America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.”

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