Erving Goffman Quotes
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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The first time I went to New York, I went with my first boyfriend, Clark. His dad had just bought an apartment in New York, and my dad dropped us off, and we were there for a week on our own. I must have been 15 or 16. I remember I went to Harlem and bought a goose jacket. That was the hip, hot thing.
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
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Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
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When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway. When the streets are wet - the colors slip into the sky. But I don't know why that means you and I are - that means you and... I quit, I give up. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.
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Every text assumes a reader.
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Once you’ve married, be strict but just with your wife, don’t allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: 'Don’t forget that I made you happy.'
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
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I sing about the things that I don't have conversations about.
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Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
