Eugene Delacroix Quotes
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
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I speak from a nerd's perspective because I've been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on 'Speed Racer' and 'Star Blazers' and 'Battle of the Planets,' and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.
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Russians are not a very friendly people. It's hard to get them to speak nicely to the customers. It's just not in their culture.
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The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.
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Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.
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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.
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I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads "Wisdom begins in wonder".
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As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.
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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.
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The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
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It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
