Alan Dundes Quotes

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

Alan Dundes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.

John Oliver

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Me and Ashley feel like we're totally different.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, 'He who seeketh knowledge seeketh sorrow!'

Matt Bellamy

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Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.

Dr. Dre

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I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

Selena Gomez

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Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.

Seamus Heaney

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I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.

Thomas Kinkade

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The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

Mario Cuomo

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Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo.

Leonardo DiCaprio

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In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

Leland Stanford

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I absolutely love Vancouver! One, because the city is beautiful and very easily walkable, and two, because the city keeps giving me work!

Julie McNiven

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We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

James Henry Breasted

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