Alan Dundes Quotes
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
Quotes to Explore
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.
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Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.
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They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
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I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.
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We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.
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Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
