- Amazing Things
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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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether Earth was deliberately terraformed, in other words, or whether it was seeded with the spores of life from crashed comets or whether, indeed, life arose here spontaneously and accidentally, it is reasonable to hope that we might find traces of the same kind of process on Mars.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?
- Contraction
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can only spend words of thanks to the Juventus fans. I had two beautiful years there, and I can only thank them.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'll tell fear it can come along with us in our minivan, okay? But we'll just tell fear it can't drive. Sometimes we'll tell it to not even talk. Like when we tell our kids, 'Enough. No words.' We're going to play the quiet game with fear. Fear is not the boss of us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost all words do have color, and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her, too.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020