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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.

  Terrence Howard

  People, Support, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.

  Richard Rohr

  Buddhist, Growing Up, Ghetto

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Light, Hip Hop, Firsts

  "James Vincent McMorrow, On the Move". Interview with Pimploy Phongsirivech, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2016.

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• Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?

  Dan Barker

  Running, Religious, Religion

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Pain, War, Islamic

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• And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than fond memories and fast friendships. The enduring qualities of Massachusetts - the common threads woven by the Pilgrim and the Puritan, the fisherman and the farmer, the Yankee and the immigrant - will not be and could not be forgotten in the Nations Executive Mansion. They are an indelible part of my life, my convictions, my view of the past, my hopes for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Lonely, Memories

  Address to the Massachusetts legislature on January 09, 1961. "Congressional Record", Volume 107, Appendix, p. A169, January 10, 1961.

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• It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Years

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• If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Running, Religious, Expression

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• When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.

  J. Cole

  Mean, Waiting, Form

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The common thread linking the major Islamic terrorist attacks that have recently occurred on our soil - 9/11, the Ft. Hood shooting, the Boston Bombing, the San Bernardino attack, the Orlando attack - is that they have involved immigrants or the children of immigrants. Clearly, new screening procedures are needed.

  Donald Trump

  Children, Islamic, Boston

  Donald Trump's Speech On Fighting Terrorism, www.politico.com. August 15, 2016.

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• I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.

  Will Arnett

  Play, People, Way

  "Will Arnett Is Ready To Confront His Own Demons". Interview with Andi Teran, www.elle.com. March 10, 2016.

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