Alan Dundes Quotes
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
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I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.
Barack Obama
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
Oscar Wilde
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
Livy
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
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
If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.
Wilhelm Keitel
‘Stinko, is he?’'Not perhaps stinko, but certainly effervescent.’
P. G. Wodehouse
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
Mary Augusta Ward
I used to be a person who just peaked for the big events, not doing too many competitions, but now you've got to go round chasing all the points because if you're not taking them, someone else is.
Jade Jones
I did not know that you had to learn makeup. I just thought you went, 'Oh, I'm gonna put on some makeup.'
Jeffrey Tambor
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