Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
Quotes to Explore
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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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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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men.
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One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.
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I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.
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Imagine that we didn't know the chimpanzee, that all we knew were those bonobos who have sex all the time and are peaceful and female-dominated and that people would say that this is our only close relative. I think we would have totally different theories about ourselves and our background. But, of course, it didn't happen that way.
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
