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- Nov 07, 2020
Language Quotes
The words we reach for, and the ones we lack.
This set explores where language falls short, from the struggle to describe atomic structure in everyday words to a preference for scientific clarity over diplomatic phrasing. It connects to our More quotes on related themes of expression.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same language. So native New Yorkers can move to San Francisco, Houston, or Milwaukee and still understand and be understood by everyone they meet. Right? Well, not exactly. Or, as a native New Yorker might put it, 'Wrong!'
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
- Essence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied to facts objectively viewed, 'Brown' must either be flat-out wrong or a very mystifying decision.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020