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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 26, 1951

Topics

WorldLanguageLearnYouSituation

Sometimes, I tell my wife I have to take a car trip and collect new memories - I like to drive around at absolute random for weeks on end through the United States and parts of Canada. Or else I feel trapped, like you feel when your life is completely planned for months in advance, and you think you're not getting enough oxygen.

Jim Harrison

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I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold.

Joe Miller

LeadershipColdBelieveSolution

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

Jerry Saltz

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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Anatole Broyard

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Like a horrible nightmare, the abrogation of equal rights weighs upon us all, but especially upon those Jews who, like me, had surrendered themselves to the dream of assimilation.

Max Liebermann

MeDreamEqualRightsUsHorrible

I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.

Maxine Peake

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A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

Robert Reich

AttentionValuesAbortionGayRights

As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.

Michael Greger

AmazingSweetYouAdaptNowOrange

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

John Sayles

DayYouWriteNextGoingSaw

I don't care if people like Trump or hate him, if they voted for him or not; people just want to have a good time. They don't want to hear about immigration or whatever on a record or at a show.

Shooter Jennings

GoodTimeHatePeopleCareWant

It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

WorkIntelligencePastReadingYou

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

Ritchie Blackmore

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