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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At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.
Laurie Garrett -
Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it's where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home - I love the culture clash of the city.
Dree Hemingway -
When I was 27, I felt old. I didn't feel healthy. I just wasn't taking care of my body, and I had a body that wanted me to take care of it.
Matt Bomer -
You can make a really good film for under a million dollars, like 'October Baby,' or under a half million, like 'Hardflip.'
John Schneider -
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