Erving Goffman Quotes

The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.

Erving Goffman

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• I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Style

• Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Great
  • Men
  • Greatness

• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Hero

• I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Place
  • Grow

• Love is a kind of warfare.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Kind
  • For Her

• What's more American than violence?' Hayduke wanted to know. 'Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • American
  • Violence
  • Pizza

• I am alive when your fingers are.

  

  Anne Sexton

• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Women
  • Love
  • Revolution

• I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

  

  Charles Frazier
  • High

• Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Men
  • Women

• When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

  

  Janet McTeer
  • Dream
  • English

• It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • God

• I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.

  

  Cynthia Voigt
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Up

• Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • People
  • Done
  • Dream

• I have only an office here, and no opinion.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Opinion
  • Office
  • Here

• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Age
  • Black
  • Opportunity

• When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Wanted
  • Roles
  • Dramatic

• No force is more powerful - or more multiple - than the family.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Family
  • Powerful

• Don't forget to stop and smell the roses.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Stop
  • Smell
  • Roses

• A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

  

  Chalmers Johnson
  • Democracy
  • Nations
  • Loses

• The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.

  

  Erving Goffman
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