John McWhorter Quotes

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.

John McWhorter

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Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Jim Wallis

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I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.

Jessica Chastain

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Christmas sits like a black hole on the calendar. Just try scheduling a meeting at work the month of December.

Andrew Shaffer

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I love Cincinnati, and I want to be there.

Andrew Whitworth

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The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.

Andreas Katsulas

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If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization.

Srikumar Rao

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We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

Mary Kay Andrews

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I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

Joseph Brodsky

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My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

Desmond Llewelyn

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I wouldn't say I'm the best player. On the competitive level, I am the best competitor. I don't think there's anybody like me. I play my heart out on both ends of the floor, and I give my all.

Deandre Ayton

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I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

Christopher Egan

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I loved playing in the Big Ten, where it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

Chris Borland

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