Mary Douglas Quotes
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers...
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The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.
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The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.
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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
