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"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."
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Personal Development

"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."
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Personal Development

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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Personal Development

"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."
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Personal Development

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."
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Personal Development

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."
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Personal Development

"People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?"
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Personal Development

"It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties."
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Personal Development

"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."
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Personal Development

"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."
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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
Cultural

"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."
Progress

"There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research."
Research

"Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant."
Friendship

"They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method."
Theory

"In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed."
Education

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

"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."
Past

"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."
Life

"Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment."
Cultural
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