Edward Sapir Quotes
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.Edward Sapir
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
Rafael Vinoly -
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Walter Ulbricht -
Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
Yahoo Serious -
I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
Dana Snyder -
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
Oscar Niemeyer
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
Karan Singh Grover -
I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.
T. Boone Pickens -
My ultimate goal is whenever I go on the court, I just want to be known as one of the better players.
Zach LaVine -
It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
Ed Belfour -
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.
Maimonides -
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
Yann Martel
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I find it a sufficient embarrassment that our Establishment Clause jurisprudence regarding holiday displays has come to 'requiree scrutiny more commonly associated with interior decorators than with the judiciary'. But interior decorating is a rock hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
Antonin Scalia -
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie -
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Brian Tracy -
I respect my dad, and he's amazing. He's my hero. He's the Beatles, man - or one of them.
James McCartney -
This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future.
Jim Cooper -
I do think you need different primary kinds of love at different points in your life.
Kate Arrington
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Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.
Hermann Hesse -
Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.
Diana Krall -
If designers are willing to take risks, I think buyers should take risks, as well with press taking risks.
Jonathan Anderson -
I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
Harlan Coben -
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.
Edward Sapir