Edwin Newman Quotes
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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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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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
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Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
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A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
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For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.
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I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I would be talking in gibberish language, like I was talking in a different language, and my parents would be like, 'Oh that was great!' and I'd be like, 'Wait, it's not done!'
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Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.
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All this fighting stems from the illusion that people choose to learn a language for rational reasons, that they are looking for the language that has the most useful features, the best agenda. But no one is out there comparison shopping for an artificial language. They find what they like, and there's no accounting for taste.
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How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?
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I always said to myself when I first started wrestling that I was gonna put absolutely everything into it - into becoming the absolute best pro wrestling that I could be.
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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
