Clifford Geertz Quotes

The 'control mechanism' view of culture begins with the assumption that human thought is basically both social and public - that its natural habitat is the house yard, the market place, and the town square.

Clifford Geertz

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• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  

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• You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

  

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• I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

  

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• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

  

  Lady Starlight
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• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
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• In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

  

  Karl Marlantes
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• Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • People
  • Party
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• Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

  

  Sam Ewing
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• I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

  

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• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
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• I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

  

  Rachel Bilson
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• The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

  

  Tahar Rahim
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  • Cold
  • Mud

• Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

  

  Ian Hart
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• You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
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  • Skiing

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.

  

  Andy Garcia
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• The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.

  

  Anton Chekhov
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• Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Character
  • Want

• If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Positive

• The 'control mechanism' view of culture begins with the assumption that human thought is basically both social and public - that its natural habitat is the house yard, the market place, and the town square.

  

  Clifford Geertz
  • House
  • Culture
  • Control