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.Marvin Harris
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
Edmund Phelps -
I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
Rachele Brooke Smith -
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky -
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu -
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.
Bam Margera -
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.
Adam Clarke
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz -
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.
Laura Linney -
The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
Patrick Lencioni -
In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
Fabrizio Moreira -
I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
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.
Ma Jian
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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.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
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.
Gary Sherman -
I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
Lady Gaga -
As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
Dana Hussein -
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.
Padgett Powell -
Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
Oliver Reed
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. Philippe Rushton -
When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have been adopted or parents who have adopted.
Marcus Samuelsson -
I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
Felix Dennis -
Mark-to-market losses are not real loss. It's a notional loss.
Chanda Kochhar -
Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.
Paul Theroux -
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.
Marvin Harris