George Lakoff Quotes

The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.

George Lakoff

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• Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Best
  • Worst
  • Prepare

• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Focus
  • Gym
  • Very

• I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Think
  • Risk

• I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • Boy
  • Before

• I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Time
  • Always
  • Matter

• I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Creative

• I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Business
  • Sweet

• I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Young
  • Television
  • Act

• I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
  • Fiction

• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Cricket

• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • War
  • Happy
  • Father

• I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Great
  • Society
  • Fear

• 'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Crazy
  • Horse

• If you have a dream, this is your chance. We don't always have to play it safe because people might think you're weird.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dream

• I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I was growing up and certainly my grandson and I read Harry Potter together. You write what you can as well as you can.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Together

• On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Change

• But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Best

• The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.

  

  George Lakoff
  • Research
  • Disease
  • Medical