Edward Sapir Quotes
Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.Edward Sapir
Quotes to Explore
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
Salman Rushdie -
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
Danai Gurira -
We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
Patricia Hewitt -
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
Manoj Bhargava -
India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
Hans Vestberg -
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
Yogi Berra
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My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
Harriet Harman -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
Tamara Ecclestone -
It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
Adam Grant -
Good material is good material.
J. K. Simmons
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
Halston Sage -
Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
G. W. Bailey -
First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
Laura Dern -
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
Irvine Welsh
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I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'
Karen Allen -
I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.
Patrick Kane -
... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.
Saint Basil -
I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.
Jason Day -
But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and they do not have anything to fear now concerning internal wars or their neighbors invading France.
Frederick the Great -
Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.
Edward Sapir