Language Quotes
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It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
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There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.
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I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.
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Music is international for me so it doesn’t matter the language.
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I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
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There is no other language as similar to Hebrew like Arabic.
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When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
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My first language is French. I just love words so much, and in French it feels like I can say whatever I want however I want.
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I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
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King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in the world, and he can have no power but what is given him by law; yea, even the supreme or legislative power is bound by the rules of equity, to govern by laws enacted, and published in due form; for what is not legal is arbitrary.
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A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
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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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If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.
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Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
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I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
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If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
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I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.
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The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.
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I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!
