Language Quotes
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God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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One limits oneself in this country if you come as a legal immigrant to this country and you choose to only speak your language whether it be Polish or Russian like many of my own relatives who came here if you speak only Russian and Polish you're limiting your opportunities in the United States.
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.
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My biggest challenge was obviously the language issue as I didn’t speak a word of English when I moved to London. As a young teenager, I had a major identity crisis at the time and felt like I lost all my future, friends and ability to express myself to anyone.
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Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.
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Real emotion transcends language. You dont have to understand their words to feel their pain.
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When our veterans walk into any VA facility, they converse with men and women who speak the unique language of military service.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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A thug only understands you when you speak his language.
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Love is the language all animals understand.
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I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.
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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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I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.
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No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.
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It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.
