Quotes 41 till 60 of 314.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
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But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party- whose members for the most part come from the ghetto- seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language.
Interview with The Guardian (February 1970) -
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Politics and the English Language (1946) -
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
FAQ: Did you really say that? -
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.
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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
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Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
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Declare independence
Don't let them do that to you
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Start your own currency
Make your own stamp
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.
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England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
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English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
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Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together.
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