Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.Ferdinand de Saussure
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
Dana Goodyear -
Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
Adam Peaty -
My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
J. Michael Bishop -
If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
Rachael Ray -
On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
Kat Graham -
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
Aaron Copland
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson -
The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
Ursula Burns -
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu -
There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
Samantha Mathis -
I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
Maeve Binchy -
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
E. Joseph Cossman -
Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
Vaclav Klaus -
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
Dan Quayle -
Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
Federica Mogherini -
When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
Barton Gellman
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I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.
Ali Akbar Khan -
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
Ferdinand de Saussure