William Labov Quotes

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

William Labov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 4, 1927

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I check Facebook to see how everybody from high school's doing. I go on Reddit to see what my weirdos are talking about. Then I go on Tumblr to see what my feminists are talking about.

Jessica Williams

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I came from a hospitality background and saw that 80 percent of seats in cars weren't occupied most of the time.

John Zimmer

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Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

John Ralston Saul

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Of course cake is not bread. Is this why Americans are fat? You confuse cake with bread?

Steven Adams

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Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

Simon Callow

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I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.

Robert Wilson

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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

Josh Thomas

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From day one, The Shield was a vehicle. It wasn't, 'This is what we're doing for the rest of our lives.' It was, 'This is the vehicle we'll use to bust into WWE, to ride to the top of it, and then we fight each other.' That was always the plan.

Dean Ambrose

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I think Hillary Clinton's probably going to be indicted, is my guess. So anything she can do to deflect from her email scandal and other scandals which are coming down is probably good for her.

Corey Lewandowski

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I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.

Bruce Oldfield

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This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Bob Dylan

MusicWorldRunLandListenNever

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