John McWhorter Quotes

The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.

John McWhorter

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I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

Jeremy Northam

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I remember going to McDonald's for the first time probably when I was in college. And then I remember going and visiting a friend in Wyoming, and he said, 'We're going to do something special. We're going to McDonald's.'

John Lee Hancock

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When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

Simon Sinek

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That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.

Topher Grace

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I'm not just a guy who can knock people out.

Robbie Lawler

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In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

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The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Jonah Goldberg

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In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

Douglas Fairbanks

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But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Brent Scowcroft

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I didn't have no friends or nothing; I was a nerdy kid.

Post Malone

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Technology just means information technology.

Peter Thiel

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If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

Peter Diamandis

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