Alan Dundes
Related An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African... GEORGE CRUMB A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not ne... DARIN STRAUSS Let me be clear, the audit did not single out Asian Americans as Asian Americans. STEVE GROSSMAN CESAR CHAVEZ CESAR CHAVEZ Would you want you as an example for the children of the world? PETER STROPLE IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED! NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i... NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste... NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you... NOT SURE AFRICAN PROVERB Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talkin... DOUGLAS ALEXANDER There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans. B. D. WONG LARRY MCMURTRY Every existence is a bending in the space-time of general existence and can sometimes become so dens... MARIANA FULGER HUSSEIN OF JORDAN UNKNOWN I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are... ZIYI ZHANG BARBARA EHRENREICH ALEX HALEY Lent is a time of prayer, but not for gloomy faces. Some people choose to give things up, but that's... DIANE ARCHER Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one a... ISAIAH WASHINGTON Such men and women leave the children to suffer with their grandparents, who cannot take care of the... ANNET KURUI JON MEACHAM LAURENCE J. PETER DAVE REICHERT We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it AUSTIN O'MALLEY Alan does it for the right reasons. It's not for the money and fame. It's about conquering the sport... CORBY FISHER Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a relig... DAVID HENRY HWANG [In the auto industry, for example,] There is no American car made that does not have parts made by ... EARL GRAVES does not compound the hardship for thousands of hardworking Americans who simply will not be able to... RUSS FEINGOLD Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for ac... IAN ANTHONY DALE ORIANA FALLACI Americans and French are notoriously monolingual, especially earlier generations. Language is a sens... KATHLEEN FLINN SUSAN SONTAG [It] is not a monkey, not an ape and not a human, but it's a common ancestor of them all. RUSSELL L. CIOCHON KIMBERLY QUINN E. J. HOBSBAWM We wouldn't interfere with infants or toddlers unless their behavior interfered with functioning, fo... DONNA PALUMBO AMBROSE BIERCE F. SIONIL JOSE This whole issue of diversity is not a race thing. It's not about whether you're black, Asian or whi... RAFAEL SANCHEZ Not all of them are going to work. Not all of them are going to resonate with users. GARY FLAKE The delta is not an area that most Californians really resonate with, the way they do with the coast... MARY NICHOLS ALEISTER CROWLEY It's a very difficult decision, not just for our hemisphere but for Asian cultures as well. There wa... ROBERT CTVRTLIK JOSE SARAMAGO ERIC HOBSBAWM The program worked for about 13,000 youth. But it fell short. It works for relative caregivers who a... TRENT RHORER A lot of Asians and Asian-Americans have liver problems. If you basically ask anybody who is Asian, ... GENE LUEN YANG It was very much a family thing. There were a lot of children on the trip, a lot with grandparents, ... MARCIA FREEMAN I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans. BOB GREENE It's good to not just live inside your own little box. Even though I want her to embrace her Asian c... KIM GRAY SUNDAY ADELAJA AMBROSE BIERCE VICTOR HUGO VICTOR HUGO In Cairo, for example, voter turnout does not usually exceed nine per cent. DIAA RASHWAN Am I supposed to vote for someone I think does not represent my interests, my principles, or the int... CAMILLO MAC BICA Historically and culturally, New York City and our entire nation simply would not be the same withou... NYDIA VELAZQUEZ [Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to the... STEPHEN BATCHELOR I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable -... SIMON WINCHESTER The very moment when Americans can not worship the one true God will be the fall of this once great ... NORM TOMLINSON It will deal with the culture of those people rather than with our contacts as Americans with those ... JAMES BILLINGTON We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience... IHAB HASSAN Words do not create change as much as example does. Be the example BRENT M. JONES GARTH NIX VICTOR HUGO Or possibly possessiveness was a characteristic of draconic affection. They were supposed to be hoar... GENEVIEVE COGMAN Time is not in our favor. I'm looking at the kids who are really going to suffer. TONY KUJAWA He must not smell of drink or body odor and his 'Ho! Ho! Ho!' must resonate deeply. JAMES LOVELL Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to id... SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR WILLIAM GOLDING JOHANN VON GOETHE Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Ame... WILLIAM G. GOLDING MARTIN YAN I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been com... DEWI ANWAR I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been com... DEWI FORTUNA ANWAR We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visit... EUCHARISTA WARD CORAZON AQUINO O you who believe! let not your wealth, or your children, divert you from the remembrance of Allah; ... QURAN That is not something I would be in favor of. That would be the equivalent of some kind of windfall ... SAM BODMAN No, I'm not in favor of replay at all. MIKE SCIOSCIA JILL SCOTT I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native America... BOB GREENE RICK RIORDAN Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their mar... MORTON HUNT DEBORAH TANNEN RYAN ZINKE BHAGAVAD GITA ROB PORTMAN This is another outrageous example of why self-regulation does not work, EVAN HENDRICKS ELLEN KEY Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. BIBLE MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the Afric... HANS ROSLING JEAN-LUC GODARD BEN SHAPIRO On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may no... SETH LOW Advocacy is not only a direct appeal to someone to vote in favor or against, but also includes campa... ARI ROSENTHAL
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
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