William Labov Quotes
I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.William Labov
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Saffron Aldridge -
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
Tamra Davis -
When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
Yousuf Karsh -
We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'
Yvonne Strahovski
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Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.
Walter Kirn -
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
Fay Godwin -
We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
Barton Seaver -
I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
Ted Yoho -
Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
Inara George -
My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
Nargis Fakhri
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
Zana Marjanovic -
People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
Nate Silver -
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
Ted Hughes -
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
Jackson Katz -
At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.
Adam Driver
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With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.
Andrew Lau -
The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.
Gail Fine -
The heart of the path is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That's all that I do in my own practice.
Ajahn Chah -
In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
Len Wein -
I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.
William Labov