Mary Douglas Quotes

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

Mary Douglas

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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.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kids

• I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • More

• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• 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.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Together
  • Me
  • Play

• I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Love
  • Dress

• 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.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• 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.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Parent

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Stories
  • Approach
  • Conservative

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Healthy
  • Gain

• 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.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Trade

• 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.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Stand

• Proust is a huge author for me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Author
  • Huge

• I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Freak
  • Geek
  • Freakish

• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Up
  • Always
  • Clothes

• We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Earth
  • Peace

• You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

  

  Dale Berra
  • Different
  • Father

• Beloved, we need much care, much watchfulness, to be able to look into the depth of the Divine Scriptures. For it is not possible to discover their meaning in a careless way, or while we are asleep, but there needs close search, and there needs earnest prayer, that we may be enabled to see some little way into the secrets of the divine oracles.

  

  John Chrysostom
  • May
  • Prayer
  • Search

• It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • People
  • May
  • Tree

• Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Incidents
  • Be Reduced
  • Be Brought

• An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • May