Ellen Dissanayake Quotes

In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.

Ellen Dissanayake

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• My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Age
  • Mom
  • Chance

• We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Human
  • Understand
  • See

• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Life
  • Wise

• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Future
  • Privilege
  • Citizen

• But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

  

  Ted Rall
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Politics
  • Easy
  • Gossip

• As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Live
  • Want
  • Kind

• Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Great
  • You
  • Musicians

• I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Achieve

• Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Life
  • Joy
  • My Life

• I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Great
  • Looking

• We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Fight
  • Now
  • Foot

• I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Know
  • Never

• The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Serious
  • Practice

• They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • High

• I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Career
  • Doubt
  • Childhood

• By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • King

• Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

  

  John Wooden

• I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Democrats
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

  

  James Brown
  • Hair

• For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • Music
  • Art
  • Culture

• The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

  

  Deborah Meier
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Students

• In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.

  

  Ellen Dissanayake
  • Art
  • Hunter
  • Human Society