Arika Okrent Quotes
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind.Arika Okrent
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie -
Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
Kate Winslet -
Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
Hamid Karzai -
But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
Patricia Heaton -
I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
Zooey Deschanel
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
Larry Flynt -
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater -
I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
Laura Spencer -
I'm proud of my sexuality.
Adam Lambert -
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
N. T. Wright -
I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
Victoria Aveyard
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American literature has always been immigrant.
Salman Rushdie -
For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.
Barton Gellman -
The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
Jack Welch -
But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
Patrice Leconte -
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Ibrahim Babangida -
KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.
Fat Joe
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When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.
Billy Crystal -
Love is something that never goes out of style.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.
John Oliver -
There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
David Copperfield -
I'm always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.
Mathieu Amalric -
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind.
Arika Okrent