George Lakoff Quotes
Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
Quotes to Explore
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
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Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.
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I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
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Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast. So the amount of time that it takes between sickness and wellness is only the amount of time that it takes for me to figure out how to let it in - for me to figure out how to feel good, when I'm looking at something that makes me feel bad.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
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Bring me another bad one, and I shall protect my British people - I brought down Thatcher to protect my people, and I'm bringing down Tony to defend them, and I'll be there for any other dangers that come along.
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Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
