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Ruth Benedict Quotes

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 5, 1887 - September 17, 1948

Topics

Life Community History Down First

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

Curious You Find Know Way Write

I'm a huge holiday person. I love having parties and giving gifts.

Love Giving Holiday Person Gifts

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

Fishing Baseball Golf Film Just

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.

Life Moment Write Taste Twice

I hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd make some money!

Hope Money Talking Look Make Some

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

Good Democracy Financial End Wall

Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them!

Feel Silly Easy Drama Actor Hours

I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.

Myself I Am Moving Forward Moving Up

Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole.

People Accept Movement Jewish Israel

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

Life Son Think You Career Movies

As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.

Thinking Engineering Physics Now Kid

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

Good Politics Everyone Policy May

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