Language Quotes
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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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You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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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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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
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Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
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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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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've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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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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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.
