Alan Dundes Quotes
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
Alan Dundes
Quotes to Explore
-
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
Sam Harris
-
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi
-
There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
Gary Ackerman
-
I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
Ike Barinholtz
-
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
-
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks
-
I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.
Darcey Bussell
-
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
Pierre Corneille
-
In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?
Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
-
Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.
William J. Mann
-
The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can't bear is multi-tasking. They despise it to the highest degree, so from the age of five I've been taught that if I did two things at the same time, it meant I didn't know how to do one. It's an obsession that they have.
Lou Doillon
-
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
Alan Dundes
