Margaret Mead Quotes

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Margaret Mead

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• Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • May
  • Door
  • Voice

• Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Government
  • Special
  • Will

• I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Art
  • American
  • Like

• There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Civilization
  • Theater
  • Were

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!

  

  Manika
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Hard

• I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Playing
  • Early
  • Bars

• If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Money
  • Guy
  • Player

• I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Real
  • Game
  • Action

• I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Perfectly
  • Symmetrical

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Never

• Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Healthy

• Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Style
  • Always

• When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Want
  • Look
  • Apple

• I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So I was very lucky in that respect. Most people don't make a living acting.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Writing
  • Respect

• I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Job
  • Old
  • Interview

• I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development-those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • Home
  • House

• I guess, like, I've always listened to rap, and I remember I specifically started listening to, like, pop-rap when I was, like, 11, you know, like Shaggy. I love Shaggy. And then I discovered, like, underground rap when I got to high school, and really, that's when it kind of blossomed. I don't feel like my love for rap blossomed off of Shaggy.

  

  Nora Lum
  • School
  • Remember
  • High

• Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

  

  David Pye
  • Choice
  • Fantasy
  • Function

• In 1975, I went to the Dominican Republic for eight months during the shooting of a film based on my novel 'Captain Pantoja and the Special Service.' It was during this period I heard and read about Trujillo.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Service
  • Period

• The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Important
  • Father
  • Death

• Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

  

  Margaret Mead