John McWhorter Quotes
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it.
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Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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I am definitely a worrier.
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For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met.
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Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.
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Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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If I did that, Bush would call me a flip-flopper, ... So I'm sticking to it!
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My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
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Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
