Erving Goffman Quotes

When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.

Erving Goffman

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• I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  

  Ouida
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• If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

  

  Washed Out
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• If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

  

  Edie Falco
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• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Nature
  • Kind
  • Hand

• A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Free
  • Giving

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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  • Dad
  • Thought

• The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Life
  • Up
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• I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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• The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.

  

  Nathan Fielder
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• As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.

  

  Beck
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  • Wall

• Whenever I play a role, whether it's good or bad, an evil person or nice person, I believe in being a purist and going all the way with the role. If I'm going to be a villainous wrestler, I believe in going all the way with it and not breaking character and not giving away to the audience that I'm playing a role. I believe in playing it straight to the hilt.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Character

• The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Great
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  • Soul

• People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.

  

  Matt Lucas
  • People
  • Great
  • Funny

• The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Generation

• Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Up
  • You
  • Feel

• When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Giving
  • Kind
  • Communication