"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."

-- Clifford Geertz

#Hard Times Quotes #Students Quotes #Convincing Quotes

“Either love your players or get out of coaching.”
“Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.”
“I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.”

Source : "Denis O'Hare Exclusive Interview TRUE BLOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2010.
“The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.”
“Email is the greatest thing.”
“Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, oÂ u' il doit enfin accepter d'e"Â tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.”
“Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.”
“Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.”

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