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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With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.
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You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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I'm going to stop when I'm 100. I put a limit on myself.
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Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
