Marvin Harris Quotes

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

Marvin Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 18, 1927 - October 25, 2001

Topics

FoodPeopleSexWonderPrincipal

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

Trent Reznor

GoodNot Good EnoughSayingVoice

I've always been fascinated by twins. In my forty years of photographing, whenever there was an opportunity, I would take a picture of twins. I found the notion that two people could appear to look exactly alike very compelling.

Mary Ellen Mark

OpportunityPeoplePictureLookTwo

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

Mika

WantMakePopRecords

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Michelangelo

LifeDeathHandSameMasterBeen

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

Monica Johnson

WorldGiftGivingGreatest GiftBig

Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.

Douglas Coupland

DayTravelRememberKindClassSame

I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.

Claire Denis

PeopleThinkLearnYouCinemaWatch

A film about my life? But I am not dead.

Brigitte Bardot

LifeI AmMy LifeDeadFilmAbout

We're from Athens, Alabama. That's my town. People think it's Muscle Shoals, but they have no idea. It's a quiet, sleepy little town, about 45 minutes from Muscle Shoals. It's really hard to be a band in Athens; there are no venues.

Brittany Howard

PeopleThinkQuietMuscleBandHard

I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life.

ASAP Ferg

LifePeopleDoingWantBecauseVoid

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

Alice Oswald

TeacherMeIgnoreWonderfulJust

Skrillex has been successful because he has a recognizable sound: You hear a dubstep song: even if it's not him, you think it's him.

Thomas Bangalter

SongThinkYouSoundHimSuccessful

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