Daniel Everett Quotes
There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.
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The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
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The only sci-fi movie that I've ever been offered that, had circumstances been different, I would have definitely done, was 'Avatar.' And I literally couldn't do it because of my schedule. But listening to James Cameron talk about 'Avatar' was so fascinating. Because he literally invented the world in his mind - and it literally existed.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
