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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The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of your inner life. The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hope — all reside within you.
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Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.
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Being honest to who I am led me to write 'If Our Love Is Wrong,' and that allowed me to fully realize the direction I should be heading to - human nature, real emotions, and issues about LGBT.
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The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his Government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and friend to her foe.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
