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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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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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 shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
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In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.
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It is we who infuse life with meaning through our actions and the stories we create with them.
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Every morning we have a choice -- forget our dreams or live them.
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We were just trying to make the films that we could get made, and to push the envelope. We didn't realize how far we had pushed the envelope. That all came later. That all came from books and articles about the golden age of the '70s. Believe me, to a lot of us, it was no golden age. The studio heads were very powerful then. They would fire guys right and left. They would look at your dailies and tell you what was wrong with them... a lot of stuff that doesn't go on today. Young filmmakers who are successful today, they don't often have that to put up with.
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Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.
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