Alan Dundes Quotes

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

Alan Dundes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FutureTimePastPresentAmerican

I definitely had fun being a waiter. I can't say for sure that I was a good waiter. I think that I made people have a good time.

John Krasinski

GoodTimeFunPeopleThinkSay

Every manly icon the West has ever admired has embodied the very spirit of American independence.

Steven Crowder

IndependenceAmericanSpiritManly

People often link grime with other things, like street culture, and clashing, and MC battles and whatnot. But no one's ever talked in misogyny in grime. That's often linked to hip-hop, I know people talk about that is a problem in hip-hop. But not grime.

Stormzy

CulturePeopleProblemKnowStreet

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Molly Ivins

HistoryStruggleConstitutionAmerica

I think it's a big mistake for our party to write off Latino Americans. They're an important part of our country.

Mitch McConnell

MistakeThinkPartyCountryWrite

People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.

Judith Martin

PeopleFeelYouWhateverLikeRead

What I did at the start of each season, regardless if I was coming back as the champion, was run indoors and take forward steps from the first race.

Donovan Bailey

ChampionStartForwardBackRun

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

Donald Cerrone

GoodAngryFightingMad

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

Dean Winters

BestActorSecretBringRoleThing

I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

CourageRespectRisksNeedFilm

Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.

Christie Hefner

CommunicationPowerControlLanguage

Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite Tom Hanks!' And it's, like, 'It may have appeared to be that, but we were never in the room together.'

Annie Potts

TogetherPeopleStoryYouPlayGo

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