- People
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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
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my love for rhythm in language comes from repeating the same words, the same sounds, over and over again day after day for so many years.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
- Framed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020