Alan Dundes Quotes
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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Time was God's first creation.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.
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I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
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If I were writing the Bill of Rights now there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment . . . . This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.
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And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.
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People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.
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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
