Marvin Harris Quotes
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been.
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We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
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Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
