James G. Frazer Quotes
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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Sorry my life is so much more bitchin' than yours. I planned it this way.
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I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..
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I'm all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it's called 'Kiss Land,' it's probably going to be the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life.
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Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
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If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.
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Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
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I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.
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The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.
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When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.
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You have to hear from people who believe something different from you. That's why you go to college.
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I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.
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If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some of the names that husband and wife give each other are hardly suited to print, we must proceed cautiously.
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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
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I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.
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A theory of cultural change is impossible without knowledge of the changing sense ratios effected by various externalizations of our senses. (p. 49)
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Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.
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The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
