George Lakoff Quotes
In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set goals, make commitments, and execute plans, all on the basis of how we in part structure our experience, consciously and unconsciously, by means of metaphor.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm ready for a different America.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film. I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film because I think it was a one-off before it was imitated a hundred times.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.
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I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.
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I think I should be objective, call 'em as I see 'em. Stay the Tooz.
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Every people should be originators of their own destiny.
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Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.
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I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.
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In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set goals, make commitments, and execute plans, all on the basis of how we in part structure our experience, consciously and unconsciously, by means of metaphor.
