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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There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.
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Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.
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Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
