Edmund Leach Quotes
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.
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We are all in this together. With fellow ward members and missionaries, we plan and pray and help one another. Please keep the full-time missionaries in your thoughts and prayers. Trust them with your family and friends. The Lord trusts them and has called them to teach and bless those who seek Him.
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It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
