Alan Dundes Quotes
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
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I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.
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Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or 'incentives' for skill.
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All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
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As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.
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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
