Language Quotes
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It is clear that whatever language of democracy Barack Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.
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What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
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Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didnt even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.
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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
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I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?
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Learning another language is like becoming another person.
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The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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Music truly is the universal language.
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You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
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It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.
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While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
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The key is that Jesus does want to speak to us-to you-today. In your own language, just as a friend would speak. We simply need to take the time to listen.
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Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.
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I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something… it would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.
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If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.
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I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
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If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the Israelis into the sea. Now, I would say that most Palestinian politicians on the ground say, of course that's not what we want, and even within Hamas there is some published debate about that claim, but until the claim is removed, it's still noxious.
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What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
