Alan Dundes Quotes
Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
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Admitting hundreds of thousands of infiltrators is an existential threat to the State of Israel.
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I didn't feel the need to tell people, except for a very, very few, as it was not in any way affecting my work.
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The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.
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We felt it was our responsibility to do this as neighbors. These boats are big, industrial-looking boats that are used for duck hunting. They are very open and they can put stuff, people, pets, livestock or whatever they want in them.
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Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
