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.Daniel Everett
Quotes to Explore
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
Harlan Ellison -
I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
Earl Weaver -
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.
Radhanath Swami -
I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
Iris Apfel -
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.
Zhang Zhidong
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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.
Ed Belfour -
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.
Ted Danson -
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Hannah Arendt -
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.
Nathan Myhrvold -
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
Samantha Power -
Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
Harold Prince
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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.
Carlos Fuentes -
Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
Larry David -
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
Wendell Willkie -
I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
Barbara Bush -
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Gavin Newsom -
Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
Rachel Brosnahan
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.
Peter Jurasik -
At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
John Lasseter -
Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.
Louise Erdrich -
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.
Daniel Everett