Words Quotes
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People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
Caitlin Moran
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
Nathan Myhrvold
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'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don't know if that was the best thing for Guns.
Axl Rose
Guns N' Roses
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'Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.
Deborah Tannen
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After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.
Irving Kristol
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Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.
Edwin Armstrong
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Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander.
Jenny Scheinman
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I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.
Mary J. Blige
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For me, the words 'Anything is possible' haven't served as a bolstering of hope as much as a warning to run for cover.
Bernard Cooper
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
Arthur Rimbaud
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One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.
Kristin Bauer van Straten
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.
Lucille Clifton
