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.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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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.
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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.
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Never explain, never complain.
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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.
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I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'
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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.
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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.
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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
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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.
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I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.
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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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Chi non punisce il male comanda che si faccia.
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Keith Powell and Judah Friedlander are like brothers to me.
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(The deputy) said it looks more scraggly and thinner than it did, ... Thats even more dangerous because hes probably hungry.
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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
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The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.
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It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.
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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.
