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.
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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.
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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.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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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.'
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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.
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The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
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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.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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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.
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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.
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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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Not a manager or an executive yet? It's not too early to practice. Many companies are always looking for people to volunteer to help coordinate happy hours, onboard new employees, or plan the holiday party.
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In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to 'What turns me on is erotic; what turns you on is pornographic.'
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People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they can't sing.
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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.
