Mary Douglas Quotes
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
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An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.
