Alan Dundes Quotes
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.Alan Dundes
Quotes to Explore
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
Gavin Newsom -
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
Ian Hacking -
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
N. K. Jemisin -
I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
Valorie Curry -
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
Laura Linney -
Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
Iman
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
Jaclyn Smith -
Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
Haley Joel Osment -
Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
Yusuf Hamied -
This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
Kallam Anji Reddy -
Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
Carly Fiorina -
Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
Kate Upton
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There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
Vida Blue -
Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
D. B. Sweeney -
Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.
Frances Beinecke -
Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
Yahoo Serious -
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
Queen Elizabeth II
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Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.
Buffy Sainte-Marie -
My mom played 12-string and sang, and my dad could play pretty much any wind instrument and had a great ear for harmony. Soon enough, my sister and I got into music because we were always around it, and people were always listening to it.
Nathaniel Rateliff -
The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.
Anne Sweeney -
I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.
Christopher Buckley -
It's just really important I think for fashion to be affordable, because everyone should have the opportunity to wear cute things and be happy and comfortable in what they are wearing. That's definitely how I like to shop and how I like to think about clothes and fashion.
Lea Michele -
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
Alan Dundes