If this enormous pressure didn't exist, I wouldn't have been elected. It would have been one of the usual candidates.
I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.
If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.
I didn't love school.
Even an atheist finds God when they point at what they don't believe in.
Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.
If i had known better, I would have done better.
The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial fieldwork experiences and their lives. Illustrating the dense interweaving of the personal and the professional that is the hallmark of anthropology as a vocation, these essays are at once affectively deep reflections, and clear-eyed assessments, of lives often lived 'between here and there. ' Alma Gottlieb's idea to stimulate these articles and bring together this collection was inspired.
Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark. "She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].
The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.