Language Quotes
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
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The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don't learn a language early on, it's nigh impossible to become truly fluent.
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I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
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I speak the language of television.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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What got me really excited about Tylko is the fact that it bridges the gap between tradition and technology. It expands the designer's ability to create a language, to create ideas, to create a set of proportions, a set of details, and to apply those across a really wide range of applications.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.
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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
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We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.
