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.
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.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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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.
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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.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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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.
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Good material is good material.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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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.
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First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
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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.
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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.
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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.
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The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.
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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.
