John McWhorter Quotes
'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would.John McWhorter
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Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White -
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
Walter Cronkite -
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
Harold Kushner -
Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
Nancy A. Collins -
If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
Yoko Ono -
With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
Abraham Maslow
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland -
I never starved myself.
Tatjana Patitz -
I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
Lane Garrison -
If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
Ichiro Suzuki -
I just want to keep writing music.
Lady Gaga -
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
Sallust
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Breathe through your movements.
Patricia McBride -
There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
Walter Lord -
I like to mix British classics, like a great trench, with fun vintage pieces I find in New York. L.A. style is often very relaxed and comfortable, and I appreciate that effortless feel.
Harley Viera-Newton -
One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
Abe Lemons -
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
Rajneesh -
The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong.
Han Fei
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Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.
Bill Clinton -
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.
Eugene Ionesco -
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John Ruskin -
People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
Robert Rodriguez Chingon -
That excitement on the court, I'm the same way off the court. I like to have fun, meet people; I like to give high-fives to the kids courtside. Just have fun. That's kind of my personality, that's how I've been.
James Harden -
'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would.
John McWhorter