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Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way. -- John French Sloan
I believe that when the going gets tough, you should just hit pause. Assimilate what is happening for 10 minutes. Your thoughts will be much clearer. -- Shreya Ghoshal
Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand. -- Richard Holbrooke
As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view. -- Madeleine Albright
We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. -- Radhanath Swami
What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows. -- Zoe Lofgren
My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate. -- Aubrey Plaza
I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch. -- Billy Porter
I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind. -- Don Ameche
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character. -- Nancy Pearcey
If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate. -- Uzo Aduba
I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot. -- Pia Zadora
I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American. -- Jeff Denham
I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match. -- Tony Dungy
My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the mid '50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name 'Caroselli.' -- Steve Carell
No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility. -- Daryl Gates
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. -- John Polkinghorne
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more. -- Ernest Istook
When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out. -- Jonathan LaPaglia
First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.' -- Edmund White
The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate. -- John Perry Barlow
When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that were desperately trying to assimilate into America. They were having a hard time because they were Jewish. They wanted to get in to mainstream publishing but they couldn't. That's why they, and a lot of Jewish guys, went into comic books. -- David S. Goyer
Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head. -- Art Alexakis
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged. -- William Gibson
Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling. -- Michael Leunig
Imitate, assimilate & innovate. -- Clark Terry
Imitate, assimilate, and innovate. -- Clark Terry
Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world. -- Walt Disney
The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You are NOT what you eat, you are what you digest and assimilate. -- Tony Robbins
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
Many students go through "imposter syndrome" as they try to assimilate into a professional culture. -- Claude M. Steele
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. -- Franz Kafka
If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture. -- Sven Birkerts
Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt. -- Charles Fort
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot -- William James
Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien. -- Herman Melville
Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin. -- Zygmunt Bauman
The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence. -- Juan Goytisolo
If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy. -- Pedro Reyes
An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer -- Mahatma Gandhi
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule. -- Karl Marx
I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life. -- Gavin McInnes
The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks. -- Norman Manea
We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous, -- George Will
If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt. -- Osman Baydemir
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock -- William James
That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer. -- Susan Sontag
It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements. -- Richard Matheson
Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community. -- Nelson Mandela
Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people. -- Sally Ride
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony. -- Jean Liedloff
It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time. -- Susan B. Anthony
Learn from your experiences and past mistakes, assimilate them and convert them to formulas to achieve sustenance first , and then work your way to success to be the leaders in the market. -- Henrietta Newton Martin
We also have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes it's just not going to work out. -- Donald Trump
Wisdom: Knowledge rightly applied. We assimilate lots of knowledge. Whether or not we do anything with that knowledge is a measure of our wisdom. That implies some change ... and change can be difficult. -- Hyrum W. Smith
People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all. -- Caprice Crane
Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire , Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right. -- Jacques Barzun
The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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