Word Quotes
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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'Villain' is such a harsh word.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
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The echo of a kind word can be heard to the moon and beyond.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
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If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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Risk is not a dirty word.
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Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.
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Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.
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If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
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A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
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My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
