Ellen Lupton Quotes
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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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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Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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I love language, and I love the failure of language.
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Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
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Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
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When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
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A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.
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Typography is what language looks like.
