Weston La Barre Quotes

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.

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• There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

  Gail Devers
  • Live
  • Want
  • I Can

• To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Partner
  • Lazy
  • Argument

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Government

• I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Stand
  • Standup

• You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Career
  • Wise
  • Greatest

• If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Made
  • Three
  • Facebook

• I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Music
  • Like
  • Rock

• I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

  

  B. B. King
  • World
  • Help
  • Me

• Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Long
  • Rest

• I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Simple
  • Purpose
  • Flower

• I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.

  

  Evan Peters
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Ricky Gervais has jokes about people with disabilities, but do I think that's a healthy thing? Yes, I really do, because he's chosen his targets very carefully, and he's thought about what he's doing.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Healthy
  • Jokes
  • Targets

• There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • English

• What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Mind
  • Humans
  • Blunt

• Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.

  

  Weston La Barre
  • Language
  • Humans
  • Safe