Erving Goffman Quotes
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
Ziggy Marley -
'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
Ian Anthony Dale -
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
Karan Mahajan -
When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
Harold Coffin -
I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
Orhan Pamuk -
Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
Omari Hardwick
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse also are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways.
Ramakrishna -
Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.
Orson Scott Card -
Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.
Orson Scott Card -
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
Arthur Miller
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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
Louis Aragon -
One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.
Brené Brown -
All I have are the people.
Bill Bradley -
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.
Alison Moyet -
My cousin used to make fun of me for liking stuff like C+C Music Factory. I didn't have any tapes; I just liked their song on the radio. We liked that because that was what we had access to.
Kurt Vile -
The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.
Jaime Ray Newman
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Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
Deepak Chopra -
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
Bill Nye -
The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.
Yvon Chouinard -
God is directly perceived by the mind, but not by this ordinary mind. It is the pure mind that perceives God, and at that time this ordinary mind does not function. A mind that has the slightest trace of attachment to the world cannot be called pure. When all the impurities of the mind are removed, you may call that mind Pure Mind or Pure Ātman.
Ramakrishna -
He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.
John Brough -
The world, in truth, is a wedding.
Erving Goffman