Language Quotes
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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.
Larry Ellison -
I must stick with Chinese language films.
Zhang Yimou
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
Narendra Modi -
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.
Aaron Schock -
The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
Andrew Solomon -
We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
Bart Stupak -
Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.
Renee Fleming
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A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy this concept has caught on in the South film industry.
Rakul Preet Singh -
There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
Tadanobu Asano -
I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
Gary Jennings -
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.
Oscar Isaac -
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
Patrick Rothfuss -
When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
Bahman Ghobadi
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
Yael Naim -
A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
Talcott Parsons -
Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.
Yuliya Snigir -
More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.
Wen Jiabao -
It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.
Victor Wooten Béla Fleck and the Flecktones -
If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.
Erykah Badu
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
Orlando Bloom -
I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
Nana Mouskouri -
Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
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.
Ilan Stavans