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		Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Maureen Forrester
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Falling in love in high school and falling out of love - it's very digital. I've had breakups where they've called me to tell me we were done, and I've gotten a lot of text messages from an old girlfriend letting me know how she felt about me after we had ended everything.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Khalid
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donald Norman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Morgridge
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you have to go back and spell-check the text you're about to send, you're saying too much.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jaleel White
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.' So I was the girl who wasn't dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn't have jobs, and I would always be paying. At one point, I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, 'You're too pretty and cool to be treated like this.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Meghan Trainor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I get real brave when I text people. When I text people, I am so brave because it's words, but you can't say stuff.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leslie Jones
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The original text of New York is all below Chambers Street.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pete Hamill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think that's it's really important to have good friends. Nowadays, you can text 24 hours a day and be in constant contact, but every once in a while, it's nice to just get out with your girlfriends and have fun.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amanda Schull
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pope Benedict XVI
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning of Genesis. It was not about a fall from grace or a fall from perfection; it was about an awakening into consciousness, which is what it means to be human.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Claire Messud
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There was such idiot minstrelsy in rain, So many clappers going without bells, That these bethous compose a heavenly gong. One voice repeating, one tireless chorister, The phrases of a single phrase, ke-ke, A single text, granite monotony
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wallace Stevens
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The papists abuse this text, not only to the end they may commend feigned miracles, which they say are done at the graves of martyrs, but also that they may try and sell us their relics. Why, say thy, shall not the grave, or garment, or the touching of the bones of Peter have as much power to heal, as his shadow had?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Calvin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Technology is transforming how we hold ourselves, contorting our bodies into what the New Zealand physiotherapist Steve August calls the 'iHunch.' I've also heard people call it 'text neck,' and in my work, I sometimes refer to it as 'iPosture.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amy Cuddy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		This book full of linoleum prints will be an alphabet of pictorial elements without text, which shall aim at establishing a larger scale of painting, a closer contact between the artist and the wall, and a new spirit of art accompanying architecture.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ellsworth Kelly
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ameen Rihani
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In the fields with which we are concerned knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Walter Benjamin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If we are recognizing the Bible as a sacred text, then we are violating the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee by designating it as the official state book.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Haslam
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Whether you're Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it's text, text, text. Everything begins with the text, and this is a source of great anguish to me. So please let cinema get on with doing what it does best, which is expressing ideas in visual terms.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Greenaway
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Artist and illustrator R. Crumb did a whole illustration of Genesis. And he didn't go away from the text; he was totally truthful. Reading through that, I was like, "Oh, wow, it's a comic-book version of the Bible." There's a lot of heavy-duty stuff that goes on that doesn't make it into Sunday school.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Darren Aronofsky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I always get super confused by the way we look at technology, because since when were all phone calls created equal? It's not like every text is the same or that all texts are human interactions that are compromised. I don't get how conduits somehow dictate sentiment.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mary H.K. Choi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Albert Finney