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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
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My songs are somewhere between story and situation. There's also character and mood. I'm an intuitive writer, both with instrumentals and songs with words.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contemporary Swedish artists that chose Swedish as their language tended to sing about certain topics and use words I wanted to avoid.
- Economic Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neoliberalism became the leading economic ideology in the U.S. and in the U.K. during Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's mandates. In this way, the leaders of the free world offered a viable solution to the economic crisis at the time: competition, deregulation, outsourcing, to name a few buzz words that have since become common place.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020