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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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
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America's neighbors are not drilling for fun or for sport; they've chosen to proceed to create new jobs, generate new revenues, and increase the energy supply and prosperity of their citizens.
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God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.
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I feel I represent my country: not only my country but all former U.S.S.R. countries because I have very big fan base here, and I have more than a billion Muslim fans. I feel I represent these guys all around the world. My fans. This gives me very good energy. When I go to the cage, I think about these people.
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To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.
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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.
