Alan Dundes Quotes

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.

Alan Dundes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 8, 1934 - March 30, 2005

Topics

LifeRespectQualityPeopleWorld

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

Matt Taibbi

PurposeWallStreetClassEconomy

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

Michael Hastings

WritingAudienceFactEveryMass

Sports fans have an unbelievable ability at the end of the day, when the game comes on, to kind of put everything aside and watch the game.

John Skipper

SportsDayGameEnd Of The DayEnd

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

Sonia Sotomayor

SocietyActionSomeoneYouWithout

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Ry Cooder

ChanceThinkPushYouAlwaysGet

I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

Michael Rooker

WorkTrainingSchoolCakeMakeup

Anne Elliot was the one Jane Austen character I didn't fall in love with. She seemed sad and defeated.

Louisa Hall

LoveCharacterSadFallDefeated

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Jean de la Bruyere

BookMoreClockCraftWitLike

Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.

Jason Bateman

GoodAlwaysHerFortunateWellJust

'Be in' is all about passion. Life is short. There are so many interesting things we can do in our life, and I feel like if someone is just kind of showing up, it's not worth it for them or for us.

Brad Garlinghouse

LifePassionLife Is ShortShort

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.

Brian Sibley

GreatPeopleNightSmallThinkDie

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

Wole Soyinka

LiveWorldHumanityMatterWhere

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