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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not saying all Trump supporters are deplorable, but I am saying that the president of the United States has got to measure his words and be more careful about what he says.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are going to live an amazing life,' and I have.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember learning new words, trying to figure out what common things like cider, finding myself upset that my parents couldn't help me understand this new culture, that it was up to me to interpret for them as well as myself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a theater experience, the words and the feelings are the most important - the lights coming on and off are the only equipment.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020