Ngugi wa Thiong'o Quotes
A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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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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Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy this concept has caught on in the South film industry.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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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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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
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We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to talk that way, they were trying to "fix" a social reality into a natural necessity. And yet, sometimes we do need a language that refers to a basic, fundamental, enduring, and necessary dimension of who we are, and the sense of sexed embodiment can be precisely that.
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Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
