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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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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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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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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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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The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of conformity. (p. 135)
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Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's... a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.
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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
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Everybody in the world is - is ready for liberty. It's a question of how you do it.
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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.
