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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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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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.
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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
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Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
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'Do I look like someone who has something to do here on Earth?' - That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.
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The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
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Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
