Mary Douglas Quotes

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

Mary Douglas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: March 25, 1921 - May 16, 2007

Topics

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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

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If you're beautiful within, a person can fall in love with your spirit.

Angie Stone

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I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it.

Tommy Lee Jones

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Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay in the box - but let's face it. Sensible people don't major in anthropology.

Mary Doria Russell

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It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.

Mike Nichols

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There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

Michael Steele

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I've seen what power women have in unification, and I would love to create co-working spaces and networks for female entrepreneurs.

Molly Bloom

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The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.

Don Lemon

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I love cocktails. My specialty drink is a gimlet with a little egg white in it so it gets frothy. I really like rose water - sometimes I'll add it to champagne.

Christina Hendricks

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I'm pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I'll play killers. But my kids always ask me, 'Do you die in this one, too, Daddy?'

Colm Feore

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The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Cleveland Amory

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