Language Quotes
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
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In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
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Language betrays, in order to mean.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
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I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
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In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
