Language Quotes
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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.
Judith Butler
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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.
Terence McKenna
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Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
Eugene Delacroix
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We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
Stephen Fry
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
Eudora Welty
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Music is a language, a universal language.
Sun Ra
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Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.
Terry Eagleton
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If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
Simone de Beauvoir
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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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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?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We must find a common language and that common language for us is the key of E, English. You understand, right? In music, like in language, we must find common ground. When an orchestra tunes, that common ground is A.
Ari L. Goldman
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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.
Simon Sinek
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Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.
George Sava
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What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
Richard Wilson
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder
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People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.
Steve Earle
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German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
Willie Rushton
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Ezra Pound
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The English language is not always the President's friend.
George Will
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
Terence McKenna