Alan Dundes Quotes

It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually one of the principal means by which an individual and a group discovers or establishes his or its identity.

Alan Dundes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

IdentityImportantGroupWaySocial

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

Joe Manganiello

TryingLookTrainActorPrettyJust

Patrick and Joe were so young when we started the band. As slow as it was, with all the touring and crappy clubs we played, we still never had time to stop and reflect. When we took a break, it finally gave us time to reflect and grow up.

Andy Hurley

TimeSlowGrowStopYoungNever

Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.

Stephen Hawking

ResearchKeyDieOthersMayGoing

I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.

Soledad O'Brien

LoveGoodYourselfThinkQuestions

It's so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones.

Robin S. Sharma

MountainsEndEasyWrongTurnOut

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

Ron Silver

EducationGoodPeopleAdmireTurn

Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control.

Ronnie Musgrove

HomeWarControlMatchingEverything

People used to be unhappy that files and data of Aramco are undeclared, unclear, and not transparent.

Mohammad bin Salman

PeopleUnhappyDataTransparentUsed

As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.

Jay Samit

MeAngelEntrepreneurNothingMore

I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.

Dick Van Dyke

MarriageHomeParentsNeverEven

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

Chief Joseph

LawWillObeySubmitEveryPenalty

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

Chuck Jones

ValueFlowersMeBirdsUnexpected

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