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 copied ; 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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When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I became really close to my stepmother, and I am still very close to my brothers. My stepmother is the actress Shirley Jones, who was in 'The Partridge Family' alongside me, so we worked together for years.
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I think I am really easygoing. Well... as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, 'No, actually you're really picky.' But the things I ask for are really simple to do.
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Look at me. We aren´t them lauren. You´re not your mother or father any more than I´m my mother. You´re you and I´m me and I love you.
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I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.
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I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
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