Edward Burnett Tylor Quotes

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

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• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

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• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

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• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

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• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

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• I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

  

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• We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

  

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• There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

  

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• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

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• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  

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• I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

  

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• For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

  

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• The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

  

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• My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

  

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• The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

  

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• The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.

  

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• My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.

  

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• I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

  

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• I would say that we all - in whatever world we're in, whatever your occupation is, we all have a path to walk. We all have struggles.

  

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• The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

  

  Edward Burnett Tylor
  • People
  • Habit