Word Quotes
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When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.
Walker Evans
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Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.
Aristotle
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Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
Kate Forsyth
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If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.
Ben Harper
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The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.
Morgan Freeman
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“The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'.”
Beano Cook
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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
Adam McKay
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All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell
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Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.
Eminem
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Last word in lonesome is me.
Eddy Arnold
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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
Sophocles
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Don't say the F word, it's rude.
Ben Gillies Silverchair
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The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.
D. Elton Trueblood
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There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. "
Art Blakey
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Here's the exact date: The day I got word we were dropped by the label was on Monday 25th September 1990, a year later than I remembered!
Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
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Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
Pythagoras
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Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
Bram Stoker
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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
Andrew Vachss
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A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
Walker Percy
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I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
Walker Evans
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I love the way they look. I love the way they feel. I love saying the word again and again: Jeggings! Jeggings! Jeggings!
Rachel Sklar
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I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.
Natalia Makarova