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Edward Sapir Quotes

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

Edward Sapir

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 26, 1884 - February 4, 1939

Topics

Community Experience Choices Language

It's a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. That is plain and simple.

Stromae

Simple Cultures Fact Anglo-Saxon

If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.

Tony Parsons

Someone Insult Way Hatred Out Like

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

Rod Steiger

Character Thinking Slow You Fast

Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'

Jason Alexander

Funny Interesting You Lose Down Up

I'll be honest: I don't even really know what 'Netflix and chill' means.

Devin Druid

Chill Know Netflix Honest Means

I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the best prices at auction and things like that.

Cornelia Parker

Art Best World Too Much Possible

I wanted to get better at writing, so I knew I needed to move to Nashville.

Cole Swindell

Writing Better Nashville Move Get

My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

Peter O'Toole

Life Good Together Support People

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

Pauline Kael

Day American Picture Talking Citizen

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Noel Coward

Good Mind Enough Body Suspicion

There are a lot of things about having money that are perceived to be cool but that aren't. Maybe if you're a CEO jerk who likes going coast to coast by himself in a G4, then that's fine. But that's not me. And it never will be.

Nolan Bushnell

Money Me Cool You Will Never

Cheating is nothing to be proud of.

Mark Hunt

Proud Cheating Nothing