Alan Dundes Quotes
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.Alan Dundes
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The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
Vera Farmiga -
I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
Felix Hernandez -
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
J. G. Ballard -
If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.
Olga Kurylenko -
We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?
Ban Ki-moon -
Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.
Rainbow Rowell
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I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
Vince Gill -
For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
Ralph Baer -
Tupac has always been somebody who represented a higher consciousness of what it means on both sides of the coin to be black in America. He and Prince were leaders who moved to the beat of their own drum, and I can only hope to follow in their footsteps.
Kat Graham -
Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.
Taylor Swift -
My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
Barack Obama -
And I stood arrow straightUnencumbered by the weightOf all these hustlers and their schemes.I stood proud, I stood tallHigh above it all.I still believed in my dreams.
Bob Seger
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I just feel like you're being realistic if you can laugh at yourself.
Lucy Dacus -
If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.
Alice Ripley -
I believe firmly in God's control in life.
Charles R. Swindoll -
It was easy for the Democrats to attack the wealthy fat cats of Wall Street, the elite, and the privileged people - to portray them as a profiteer of the system, which to some extent, they are. Not because they wanted to, but because Mr. Bernanke enabled them to be profiteers.
Marc Faber -
Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
Elizabeth George -
The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.
Marcia Fudge
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Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
Jim Henson -
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
Sam Kean -
The basic prescription for preventing deflation is straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.
Ben Bernanke -
Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
Charles Williams -
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
Alan Dundes