Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Quotes

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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• The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.

  

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• America is another name for opportunity.

  

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• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

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• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

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• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

  

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• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

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• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

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• The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

  

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• In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.

  

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• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

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  • Always
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• A million years went by quick.

  

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  • Years
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• When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.

  

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• Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

  

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• She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done.

  

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• I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

  

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  • World
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• If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

  

  Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
  • Family
  • Soul
  • Institution