Eyvind Kang Quotes
I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.
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Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
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I kind of treat myself like the audience. I don't like being lectured.
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I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt, that atheists are as plentiful as blackberries.
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Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized.
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Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
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I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.
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There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.
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We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.
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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
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Throughout elementary and middle school, I was used to hearing other words: Smart. Studious. Well-spoken. Well-read. They became pillars of my self-confidence, enabling me to build myself up on what I contributed rather than what I looked like.
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A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.
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I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.
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At 16, I got into local-education archaeology classes - you got to go to summer digs. It allowed me to be both intellectual and a bad girl with a wicked social life every evening!
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What a jolly thing military surveillance is!
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Everyone is going to die.
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.
