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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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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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Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
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When I was in high school, I had a notebook that I filled up with rules about lying. It must have been a hundred pages long - one hundred pages of rules about lying!
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I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.
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But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
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When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.
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We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.
