Daniel Everett Quotes
I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.
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Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.
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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
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Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.
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I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.
