Alan Dundes Quotes

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

Alan Dundes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things.

John Fuller

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I'm a pretty open book, so not being out publicly felt inauthentic. Hopefully we can get to a point where your personal life isn't anybody else's business, but until then, it's less about people having to know about your sexuality than standing up for what's right and fighting for equality.

Megan Rapinoe

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I don't ever preach to people.

Tom Douglas

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I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.

Michael Moore

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The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

Joss Whedon

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The fans have been really incredible everywhere we've been. You want to make sure you put on the best concert of your life to show them how appreciative you are.

Jonathan Davis

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I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Chris Pine

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There've been a lot of TV programs on me in Russia.

Bryan Fogel

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I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.

Anthony Horowitz

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When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

Phil Spector

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'The Nice Guys' fulfilled my 1970s fantasy.

Ryan Gosling

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A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

Richard Dawkins

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