William Labov Quotes
We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
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In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.
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There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.
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My aortic valve was a bit different than normal, and some doctors thought I shouldn't do triathlons.
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We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.
