Alan Dundes Quotes

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Alan Dundes

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• 'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Great
  • Movie
  • You

• 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.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Cool
  • Voice
  • Bold

• I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Different
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Family
  • Black
  • Fans

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • New
  • Dead
  • Research

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Security
  • Cost

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Smart
  • Write
  • Own

• When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Power
  • Single
  • Year

• 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.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Eyes
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• I had a very modest upbringing.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Very
  • Had
  • Upbringing

• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Public
  • Intellectual

• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Old
  • Grow

• Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Friends
  • Policy
  • Nations

• A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Different
  • Think
  • Want

• Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Mother

• A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.

  

  David Letterman
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Paris

• There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.

  

  Caragh M. O'Brien
  • Way
  • Hero
  • Forget

• Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

  

  Alan Dundes
  • Life