George Lakoff Quotes
Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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You never forget where you come from.
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Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.
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The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
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People everywhere see the True, the Beautiful, and the Good and long to know their source. And, thank God, He has revealed Himself!
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People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.
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President Trump, who made his name in the business world and built a brand as a successful CEO via a reality TV show that punished incompetence, was not just elected for a series of tough policy views.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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If I'm in a hurry, I will have the South Beach Ricotta Muffins. Some mornings, I'll just have turkey bacon and scrambled eggs.
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Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.
