Clifford Geertz Quotes

American - Scientist | August 23, 1926 - October 30, 2006

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

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I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

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I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.

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I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

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I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

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I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.

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I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

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I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

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I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.

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I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.

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I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.

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I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

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