- Nov 07, 2020
Saying Quotes
The gap between what's said and what's meant.
This set focuses on the friction around saying things: doubts other people voice about an unusual project, the strangeness of writing lyrics meant for someone else's voice, and family conflicts that get said and later forgiven. It pairs well with our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gosh, I love saying 'Booyakasha!' I keep finding new ways to say it. I love saying 'Booyakasha.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum was a high-jumper and qualified to go to the Olympics, but it got into the newspapers that she was married to my father, and the church put pressure on her to pull out of the Olympic team, saying, 'You can't be exposing all your legs.' That's how strong the influence of the church was on us all.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say to a country that it shouldn't export its gas is like saying, 'Look, the only way we can defeat hunger is to put a padlock on the refrigerator.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.
- Foreseeable Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.
- Hacker
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- Nov 07, 2020
The core hacker premise that 'code wins arguments' is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether it is a conservative or liberal idea, and that whatever works is worth keeping.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020