Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes

The scope of linguistics should be:

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• Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • People
  • You
  • Networking

• I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Attracted

• I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Doubt
  • Tough

• Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Great
  • Thinking

• We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • World
  • America
  • Rules

• I always wanted to be an ambassador.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Ambassador

• I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Management

• To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Government

• When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!

  

  B. B. King
  • God
  • Sleep
  • Yourself

• I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.

  

  Karan Johar
  • House
  • Gay
  • End

• No one man is superior to the game.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Game
  • Man
  • Superior

• If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Win
  • Matter
  • Losing

• When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Real
  • Money
  • Technology

• Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Growth
  • Social
  • Welfare

• I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mother

• People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People

• At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • War
  • Cold

• I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Choose

• If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Single
  • Taken
  • Natural

• When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.'s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.

  

  Ali Babacan
  • Country
  • Money
  • Gold

• The scope of linguistics should be:

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure