Erving Goffman Quotes

So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.

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• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Star
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• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Time
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• My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.

  

  Zara Phillips
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• My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Time
  • Great
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• I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.

  

  Najib Mikati
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  • United States

• Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Jump

• You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

  

  Oscar Levant

• You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe, that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing that you believe it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe

• If a man is not bound down, he is sure to succeed.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell

• My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • God

• My dad was one who - he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.

  

  Bernice King
  • Work
  • Dad

• Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Pretty
  • Lazy

• The beauty is, while you're working on chipping, you're also working on driving. This is because the bottoms of both swings - the area around impact - are identical.

  

  Keegan Bradley
  • Driving

• I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.

  

  Alice Waters
  • People
  • Long
  • Food

• I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

  

  Louise Penny
  • People
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• Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Brain

• He could chafe against the rich and privileged but he acknowledged that the army had taken him from the gutter and put an officer's sash round his waiste and Sharpe could think of no other job that would offer a low-born bastard on the run from the law the chance of rank and responsibility.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Job
  • Law
  • Responsibility

• Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

  

  Klaus Schulze Ash Ra Tempel
  • Music
  • Dance

• It was just awesome to win. It finally feels good to get a win after two podium finishes.

  

  Andy Lally
  • Win
  • Get
  • Finishes

• So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.

  

  Erving Goffman
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