Mary Douglas Quotes

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

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• When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Home
  • Lost

• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Society
  • Teacher

• If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Ego
  • Trophies

• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Peace
  • Tolerance
  • Sibling

• We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Know
  • Comedy

• But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Done
  • Know
  • Learn

• People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Think
  • Famous
  • Paris

• My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Years
  • First
  • Fruit

• Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Television
  • Really
  • Radio

• Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Mother
  • Law
  • Never

• Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Kids
  • Culture

• I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Born

• My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Parents
  • Complete
  • Outfit

• Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Business
  • Young
  • Lawyers

• Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Real
  • Want
  • Support

• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Management

• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Change
  • Repair

• I know a lot about Jewish comedians.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Know
  • Jewish
  • Comedians

• When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Soul

• When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is going to read that with a viciousness, because he knows where you didn't work on it. He's going to shake it and really aim for that jugular. So you are going to polish, and revise, and rewrite, and cut out, and shape it, so that your enemy has no place to grip it. That's how you revise.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Enemy
  • Cutting
  • Imagine

• Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Eyes
  • Dancing
  • Despair

• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Easy
  • Started
  • Getting

• It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

  

  Mary Douglas