Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.
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I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.
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The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
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It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.
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Take advantage of every moment, live in the present.
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At the Rugby World Cup, you don’t just get supporters from the two nations playing each other but you get supporters that are just interested in the progression of the world cup, who love the game, who love the spectacle of the world cup matches and they love seeing some of the smaller nations, too.
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We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
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