Language Quotes
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Since the classical language has an easy grammar and limited vocabulary, a few months should suffice for the mastering of it.
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Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure out what could be lost in translation. It goes directly to the pit of your soul. I think that's what music was intended to do.
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I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
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The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
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Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.
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What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.
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I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I moved to the States when I was 19. I was very impressed early on by being around people who spoke my language and ate the same food and listened to the same music, dressed the same. But then you look around and, you know, you're not in Puerto Rico.
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I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others.
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Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.
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I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!
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The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.
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Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
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Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
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It's light-hearted. We've taken out all the language -- just things that would offend a Utah audience.
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You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.
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Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.
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Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
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A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.
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Love is the language all animals understand.
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Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
