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If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropologist?'

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: After Allowed Anthropologist Any Become Chairman Discuss Economics Federal Federal Reserve Forget Had July June Leave Like Me Never Reserve Said Somebody Want You

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I wanted to be an anthropologist and travel.

~Annabelle Wallis

Topics: Anthropologist Travel Wanted

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I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems - dreams, myth, history - from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne.

~Carolyn Kizer

Topics: About Anthropologist Australian Campbell Charles Dreams Great Great Teachers Harry History Joseph Lawrence Learn Learned Lot Much Myth Named Poems Really Sarah Sources Teachers Writing Young

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I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

~Clifford Geertz

Topics: Anthropologist Doing Happens His Myself Think Who Writer Writing I Think

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An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Air Alike Anthropologist Breathe Differences Discovered Each Eat Food Forget How Humans Living Newly Only Other Our Reminds Report Stories Tell Tools Tribe Us Use Will World

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I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

~Erykah Badu

Topics: Also Analyze Anthropologist Being Complete Emotional Feel Give Human Human Being Hurt Loving Take Think Very I Think I Feel

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I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

~George Lucas

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