William Labov Quotes
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.William Labov
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
Natalie Massenet -
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry -
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Malcolm Forbes -
At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
Cara Delevingne -
In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
Olivia Wilde
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
Taylor Dayne -
I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
Rachel Weisz -
I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
Vanessa Bayer -
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Adam Lambert -
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters -
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
Idina Menzel
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe -
For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
Mackenzie Foy -
I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
Taylor Swift -
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
Abraham Verghese -
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Abraham Maslow
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Many say that no real avant-garde - which I'll define as a combative group of free-thinking artists - can exist anymore. The media's reach is too vast. New artists and movements get snatched up too quickly.
Margo Jefferson -
I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya
Nalini Singh -
If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.
Anne Bronte -
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
William Labov