Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
Quotes to Explore
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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I can always go back to education.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
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I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.
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But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
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The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.'
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Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
