Erving Goffman Quotes

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.

Erving Goffman

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• I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

  

  Abel Ferrara
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• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

  

  Gary Ross
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• When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
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• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
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• Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
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• When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

  

  Kat Graham
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• We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
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• From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
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• The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
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• The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

  

  Kanye West
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• There is too little courtship in the world.

  

  Vernon Lee
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• I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to stuff that's really on the other end of the spectrum entirely.

  

  Patricia Richardson
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• Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.

  

  P. J. Harvey
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• Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

  

  Sade Adu
  • World
  • Food
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• Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Reading
  • Eyes
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• The man-child in American comedies is always glorified; they never really show the darker side.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

  

  Laura Lippman
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• The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

  

  Martin Seligman
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• My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • World
  • Reality
  • Alive