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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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.
Eddie Murphy
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
LaMarr Woodley
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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.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
Frances McDormand
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To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.
Miguel
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Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
Bradley Chicho
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I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
Ben Kingsley
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He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not enlightened. He who is self-righteous is not respected. He who boasts achieves nothing. He who brags will not endure. According to followers of the Tao, "These are extra food and unnecessary luggage." They do not bring happiness, therefore followers of the Tao avoid them.
Lao Tzu
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
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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