- Constructing
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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
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that words printed on paper and bound between cloth covers will someday be obsolete. But if and when that day comes, there will still be a thing called books.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.
- Burial
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- Nov 07, 2020
The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.
- Nov 07, 2020
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?
- Attractions
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stopped doing interviews for a long time because the words were mine, but they were in the wrong order. Context is a very important thing - a lot of the things I say aren't serious, and so to remove the laughter does me no favours.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
The words walked right out of my mouth.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that in 2016, the corporate income tax raised $300 billion in revenue, while what it called 'targeted subsidies' cost about $270 billion. In other words, Congress could eliminate the subsidies and cut the corporate rate nearly in half without any significant loss in revenue.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020