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• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Contribution

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Radio
  • Go

• I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Law

• There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Great
  • History

• Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.

  

  T-Pain
  • Know
  • Me
  • Him

• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Morning

• I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Own

• I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Career
  • Singing

• Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Bad
  • Thought

• There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Against
  • France
  • Attack

• A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Jazz

• Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Reading
  • Waves
  • Skin

• I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.

  

  E. L. James
  • Never
  • New
  • New York

• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Body
  • Fingers
  • Ears

• I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Step

• Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Innocent

• I feel like I'm a confident dude, so I feel like I can get away with wearing something bold.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Bold

• But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.

  

  Keith David
  • Life
  • Fun

• You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Know
  • Government

• Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find themselves gravitating towards the emotional dilemma that the characters find themselves in. Other people will see that there is some layer of subversions to the storytelling aspect of poking a finger of judgment at certain governments to the idea of foreign invasion, others maybe false pretenses.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • People
  • Action
  • Emotional

• We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.

  

  John Collison