Erving Goffman Quotes

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Erving Goffman

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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 wanted long hair my whole life. When I was a little kid, my mom would be like, 'We get our hair cut once a month.' So I just always got my hair cut.

  

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• Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

  

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• I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came my way. It's what the studios wanted to make. Some of my friends were doing it, like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and they offered me 'Talladega Nights.' It's just nice work if you can get it. It's a joyful day at work, making your friends laugh.

  

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• Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Men
  • Environment
  • Animal