Samoa Quotes

• Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Science, Oedipus

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

  Margaret Mead

  Travel, Home, Memorable

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

  Dick Wolf

  Movie, Running, Beach

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• Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

  Margaret Mead

  Time, Women, Bad Ass

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in "La Abogada" newsletter, Volume 3, by International Federation of Women Lawyers (p. 5), 1967.

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• Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

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• I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?

  Margaret Mead

  Civilization, Doe, Different

  Margaret Mead (1971). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Truth, Believe, Add

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 9 Aug. 1964

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• I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

  Margaret Mead

  Growing Up, Stress, Book

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• I remember surfing in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, even Madeira, when local fishermen had never seen a surfboard before, and refused to believe that we could ride a wave on one.

  William Finnegan

  Believe, Surfing, Fiji

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What are you doing here?” [ndr prison] Selling Girl Scout cookies,” I said. “Want some? The Samoas are terrific.” (Max II to Max)

  James Patterson

  Girl, Max, Cookies

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• My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.

  Eric Stoltz

  Dad, School, Kids

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

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• My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.

  Filo Tiatia

  Mother, Dream, Brother

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

  Troy Polamalu

  Powerful, Hawaii, Territory

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• All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

  Troy Polamalu

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Nfl

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• I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.

  Jack Redmond

  Kings, Golf, Wife

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• On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.

  Jack Rowell

  Player, Rugby, Injury

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• That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa

  Monica Denise Brown

  Mediocrity, Monica, Died

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