- Four-Letter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Miley Cyrus has always been, always been my childhood celebrity crush. I knew all the words to her songs, I'm not gonna lie. I'm not ashamed about it at all.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a songwriter who uses lyrics to connect with others, it made perfect sense for me to partner with Hallmark, the leading greeting card brand that also uses words to help people make meaningful connections.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary is in the margins; phrases and sentences are underlined, some with pencil, and some with pen. Many words are circled.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020