Marina Tsvetaeva Quotes
Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
Jack Kemp
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
Eckhart Tolle
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The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
Yehuda Berg
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
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I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'
Dan Gilroy
Breakfast Club
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Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
Cam Newton
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
Hannah Kent
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Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.
Ike Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
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I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.
FKA twigs
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
H. G. Bissinger
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It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.
Wayne Rogers
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Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.
Ry Cooder
Buena Vista Social Club
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I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood.
Corey Dillon
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In our country, being from immigrant parents, growing up black in the South, coming out at 16 years old, being a teen parent... you would assume that my life would amount to nothing. And here I stand today. So, if I can do it... you can, too!
Karamo Brown
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A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.
John Travolta
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Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.
Marina Tsvetaeva