Marvin Harris Quotes

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

Marvin Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.

Joanne Froggatt

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Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.

Jodi Rell

EducationLearningTodayPeopleMore

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Joel Edgerton

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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Maya Angelou

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The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel.

Robert Love

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Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

Matthew Yglesias

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The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.

Mitch Miller

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Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Lloyd Banks

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'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.

Bryan Burrough

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Those who were closest to Yeltsin behaved as if they were running the government.

Pyotr Aven

GovernmentWhoRunningThoseWere

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

Pete Domenici

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Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith.

Scott Pruitt

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