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In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

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• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Play
  • Scary
  • Emotions

• I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Single

• The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Always

• I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Believe
  • Intelligent
  • Fans

• My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Help
  • Support

• People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Think
  • Me
  • Person

• I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Years

• They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Personality
  • Sexy
  • Awesome

• I believe everything is about balance. I'm not 100% vegan, and obviously my fiance and my friends are not vegan, so I have to come up with a menu that will satisfy everybody.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Friends

• I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Mind
  • Something
  • I Can

• Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Movies

• I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Person
  • Values
  • Ideological

• Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Science
  • Psychology

• Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

  

  Livy
  • Great
  • Control
  • Luck

• Chi non punisce il male comanda che si faccia.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • People
  • Men
  • Truth

• Some get a kick from cocaine. I'm sure that if I took even one sniff That would bore me terrifically, too, Yet, I get a kick out of you.

  

  Cole Porter

• You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Taken

• Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

  

  Alex Faickney Osborn
  • Thinking
  • Creative
  • Successes

• To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?

  

  Rick Perry
  • Library
  • Vote
  • Cards

• You are the only one who creates in your experience - no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought. If there are changes you would like to make, it will be of great value to begin telling a different story - not only about your body, but about all subjects that have been troubling to you. As you begin to positively focus, getting to feel so good about so many subjects, you will begin to feel the power that creates worlds flowing through you.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • World
  • Different
  • Focus

• All I wantIs one breakWhich is notMy neck.

  

  J. P. Donleavy

• In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

  

  Alan Dundes