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• It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Range, Interest, Contribution

  "Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linghuistics (1910-1911)" by Ferdinand de Saussure, Pergamon Press, www.marxists.org. 1993.

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• I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Mother, Strong Women, Two

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• If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

  David Frum

  Country, Upward Mobility, Tvs

  "David Frum Bashes Fox News Viewers: End Up 'Knowing A Lot Less About Important World Events'". CNN Interview, www.newsbusters.org. December 12, 2011.

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• I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

  Jenny Holzer

  New York, Writing, Independent

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• I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Song, Couple, Play

  "Ronnie Milsap's Gospel Music". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I study to learn, to be an educated person.

  Gary Sinise

  Educated, Educated Person, Persons

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• My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  Sidney Altman

  Technology, Events, Massachusetts

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• I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

  Mike Myers

  Character, Ideas, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Teaching, Boston

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• Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.

  Henry Petroski

  Vocabulary, Design Process, Case Studies

  "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". Interview with Henry Petroski, appel.nasa.gov. July 20, 2006.

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• Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

  William C. Kirby

  Goal, Needs, Looks

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• I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

  Jon Bernthal

  Baseball, College, Russia

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.

  Kurt Bills

  People, Limited Resources, Scarcity

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• The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.

  Kurt Bills

  Teacher, Children, School

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• I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Inspiration, Writing, Psychology

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• After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.

  Dave Brubeck

  War, California, Piano

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• The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

  Foxy Brown

  Friday, Character, Sunday

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• Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

  Judith Butler

  Race, Class, Different

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• Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

  Katy B

  Style, Studying Music

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• Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Men, Risk, Research

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• I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

  Zach Braff

  Piano, Lessons, Want

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• Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

  Chris Cleave

  Fun, Thinking, Psychology

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• Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

  James C. Collins

  Fall, Historical, Company

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• I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

  Alex Cox

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• I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.

  Ally Carter

  Writing, Artist, Oklahoma

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