Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
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I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.
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Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
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Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
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I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.'
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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
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Now, a fancy ball is bad enough in London, where milliners are many, and where theatres have costumes that may be borrowed or copiedĀ ; but in the country, where people are left to their own devices-truly to them may be applied the old poet's account of murderers, 'their fancies are all frightful.'
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It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.
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I noticed when I was writing the book that I would tend to mention 'outside' songs right through to about the middle of the 70's. And then all of a sudden that starts disappearing from the book, and just about everything I'm talking about from that point on are the records that I'm totally involved in.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
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p. 103