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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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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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've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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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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Words matter. Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president.
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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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I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!
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She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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I never went to college. I started working when I was 17.
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Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.
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I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.
