"Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot,……" — Alan Brennert
"Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'---a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop of macaroni salad, a piece of mahi-mahi, and a side of kimchi. Many different tastes share the plate, but none of them lose their individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely 'local' cuisine. This is also, I believe, what America is at its best---a whole greater than the sum of it's parts."
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12 Quotes by Alan Brennert
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Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the…
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Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It…
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It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives -…
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When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But…
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A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.
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Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.
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God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He…
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Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure…
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Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.
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But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien
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I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of…
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