Melting Pot Quotes - Page 4

• It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

  Dave Matthews

  Art, Southern, Melting

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

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• Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

  John Lindsay

  New York, Cities, Melting

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• I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Dream, Atheist, Men

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• Being a melting pot is what I think is great about being American, and also that we get to do something that other people don't get to do, we get to be a hyphenate. That's a good thing.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Thinking, People, Melting

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview With Jesse Thorn, tv.avclub.com. March 20, 2012.

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• I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

  Stephanie Szostak

  New York, Cities, Melting

  "My New York: Stephanie Szostak". Interview with Lauren Valenti, www.elle.com. April 6, 2013.

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• Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

  Donny Osmond

  Strong, Years, Careers

  "Exclusive interview: Donny Osmond reveals back-stage secrets and spats with Marie as new Flamingo show celebrates gala opening tomorrow". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. September 24, 2008.

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• that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

  Gene Tierney

  Character, Pride, Melting

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.

  David Denby

  Sex, Hate, Past

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• There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation's public school system entitled "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.

  Anna Quindlen

  Education, School, Class

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• Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.

  Immortal Technique

  Angel, Diversity, Devil

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• America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will be told in the history books. So I always felt I had to find out my history for myself and research my roots.

  Nas

  Book, Roots, America

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.

  Brooklyn Sudano

  People, Mixtures, Kind

  Source: www.flowinsiders.com

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• Hollywood is a symbol of global movies, it's not just American movies. It's become a platform and a melting pot; it's for all the talents and capital from all over the globe.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Hollywood, Melting, Talent

  Source: deadline.com

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• I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

  Al Pacino

  Melting, Pot, Grew Up

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.

  Howard Stringer

  America, Melting, France

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• Being a fan of science fiction, I collect a lot of science fiction art work and so if you go to my house there's like a library and you just geek out on science fiction material. A lot of the colony worlds specifically are built as a melting pot of different societies, because the world is at a point where there are only two zones that are left inhabitable.

  Len Wiseman

  Art, Two, House

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being subjected to an amalgamating process. More than just a mixing process, it is an amalgamation where the fragments, the parts in collision, really interact profoundly. They become another thing after the contact.

  Gilberto Gil

  Quality, Mixing, Culture

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• I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there is art on the buildings and people congregating who have been neighbors for years and events and music and freedom.

  Erin Willett

  Art, New York, Years

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.

  Jacob Bannon

  Melting, Pot, Form

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

  Eric Ripert

  America, Comfort, Melting

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