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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When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.
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Those who use this countries great tradition of freedom of speech should not seek to deny that same freedom to others, especially to those who, like Mr Powell, spent their war years in distinguished service in the Forces.
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People are tired of the same ol' garbage. They want people that are willing to speak out, speak up, be open and honest with them.
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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
