Words Quotes
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In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.
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We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.
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I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.
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There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
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My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words.
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Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.
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I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.
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I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.
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You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
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The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.
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Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.
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I like to be alone and listen to music. Every match I play, I have a tune in my head over and over. It might only be a few words or a small piece of the tune, but it can drive you mad.
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I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
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The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.
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Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.
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I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.
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Words are illusions.
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What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
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I rap on 'Front Porch Junkies' and 'Whatcha Got in that Cup.' I try to channel my inner Lil Wayne and Drake. It's fun to be able to freestyle over a country melody and say country words over a rap song.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
