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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Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
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A lot of the TV shows, they do long hours, and they do a lot of days, and you don't get a lot of time. But the good thing is, if you get one that's made in L.A., or made in a place you want to be, you get to go home every night.
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He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
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I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.
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Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street.
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We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.
