Bronislaw Malinowski Quotes
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.
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Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
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Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.
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The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
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An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.
