William Labov Quotes
We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.
Quotes to Explore
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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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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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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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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.
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When picking a show, I took into consideration who my fans are. Let's be honest, Buffy was a mid-season replacement on The WB, based on a failed movie. If it wasn't for the outpouring of fans and critics supporting us, we would have been canceled after four episodes. Sure, you want to stretch and you want to do different things, but it's also our job to think about who our fans are and what they want to see. Ultimately, that's why we do.
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We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.
