Language Quotes
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I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.
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I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.
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English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
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Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.
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I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.
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Language is much closer to film than painting is.
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Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.
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I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.
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I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.
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Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.
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I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'
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Understanding Meronian - my own language - is a psychic process which succeeds when we break through the boundaries of comprehension and reach for what's beyond our limited perception. Its ambiguousness is related to the ambiguousness of music, and it doesn't guide us too much towards semantic domains. It contains all the necessary meaning required in our rock music.
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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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The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.
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The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.
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What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.
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On contract clauses: 'There's all this language where you can't jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.
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Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.
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The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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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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Free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There is no room in this for the divinization of a nation, of a class, let alone of an individual. Are we not all children of one father, as it is said in religious language?
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We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.
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The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.
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If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
