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Daniel Akaka Quotes

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 11, 1924

Topics

Responsibility Believe America United

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

Melissa Etheridge

Life My Life Sometimes More Inspired

There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language. For the first four decades of the 20th century, his novellas and biographies were devoured by rich and poor, young and old, well read or less so.

Time World Rich Language Young Poor

Hip hop is usually a bunch of guys talking to a bunch of guys, in my experience. It's homosocial, not homosexual, in that it's almost always all one gender in a room where it's being created. That locker-room environment has an impact on the language. I think the music suffers 'cause it allows an almost cartoonish level of misogyny.

Music Experience Think Impact Gender

Pirates almost never sailed with women. Just four or five are known to have worked as pirates during the Golden Age. Two of them - Mary Read and Anne Bonny - became famous, dressing as men and fighting alongside one of the most celebrated of all pirate captains, 'Calico' Jack Rackham.

Women Age Men Famous Fighting Never

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

Bad Too Much Always Much Bureaucrats

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

Stephen Colbert

Great Man College Small Year First

God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.

Live God Sick Want Living Going

When you hear a politician say 'fair share,' you are talking about hypocritical political propaganda. You are not talking about an intelligent discussion of who is paying what and who isn't paying taxes.

Political Talking You Say Taxes

We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.

People Healthcare Moral Need Get

Politics are well past logic. It's entertainment.

Politics Past Logic Entertainment

My understanding, when I think of immigration, is like... you know, this country was built on immigrants: the German, the Polish, the Italian, the Jewish, the Russians, the Eastern Europeans. So, all these people came in, and I don't know who decided like, 'No, that's it! There's a cap on it! No more people.'

People Think Understanding You Know

I know what my teammates think about me, I know what my coaches think about me. I don't concern myself with what anyone thinks outside of that.

Myself Me Think Know Teammates

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