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Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.
Howard Shore
Music
You
Language
Feelings
Build
Relationships
Those
Something
Emotional
Feel
Essentially
Want
Based
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
Hu Shih
People
Writing
Language
Resolved
All My Friends
Classical
Poems
More
Poetry
Write
Announced
Vulgar
July
Friends
Begin
America
So-Called
Experiments
Now
Tongue
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
Hu Shih
Learning
Culture
People
Language
Country
Young
Contacts
Began
Intellectuals
Establish
After
Chinese
Chinese People
Jesuits
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
Hugo Ball
Language
Paradise
Long
Sign
Absorb
Real
View
Things
Images
Symbolic
Consequence
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
Hunter S. Thompson
Alone
Personality
Fans
Language
Types
Only
Never
Football
Share
Cultures
Legion
Often
Common
The Only Thing
Fan
Cuts
Across
Many
Serious
Thing
Universal
Universal Language
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
Huston Smith
Truth
Teacher
Business
Language
Poet
Unless
Telling
Poetry
Could
Onto
No-One
He
He Or She
Opens
She
Real
Tradition
Celtic
Which
Use
Special
Why
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.
Huston Smith
God
Religion
You
People
Speak
Language
Thought
Own
Take
Idioms
Person
Same
Different
Chinese
Spanish
Different Language
Different People
Use
Each
Express
I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
I. King Jordan
Language
Year
Sign
Very
Scotland
American
Different
Lived
British
Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
Ian MacKaye
Music
People
Money
Language
Community
Profit
Similar
Something
Part
Vein
Clearly
Along
Come
Most
Make
Within
Always
Nonprofit
Coming
Bands
Different
Inasmuch
Different People
Mile
Who
Using
Each
Based
Ever
Playing
Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.
Ilaiyaraaja
Art
World
Language
Boundaries
Transcends
Us
Unifying
Across
Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.
Ilan Stavans
Learning
Language
Sacrifice
Latinos
Give
Up
Mean
Should
English
Original
If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
Ilan Stavans
World
Word
Language
Think
Other
Give
Writer
New
His
New Word
Maybe
Anything
Languages
Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
Ilan Stavans
Women
Communicate
Language
Later
Considered
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Could
Write
Writers
Longer
Masses
Years
Yiddish
Children
Order
Hebrew
Century
Realized
Europe
Illiterate
Population
Originally
Needed
When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and they were 'Hello' and 'Shut up.'
Ilhan Omar
Words
Speak
Language
First
Country
Knew
Coming
Arrived
Were
Up
Much
Really
Hello
Shut
Shut Up
Here
Two
I had a lot of challenges starting school, and my dad says I would come home every day crying and feeling bad about the problems I was having with some of the kids. And he would tell me to work hard on learning the language.
Ilhan Omar
Work
Day
Home
Me
Challenges
Learning
Every Day
Work Hard
School
Problems
Language
Feeling
Every
Says
Kids
Tell
Bad
Would
Some
About
Having
Had
He
Come
Crying
Lot
Hard
Dad
Starting
The more comprehensive your language is, the more likely people are to believe everything you're saying. It really just comes from the power of knowing you're the smartest person in the room, and if you aren't, you're definitely going to sound like it.
Iliza Shlesinger
Saying
You
People
Language
Power
Believe
Everything
Definitely
Comprehensive
More
Smartest
Like
Likely
Knowing
Sound
Person
Going
Just
Room
Really
Your
Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
Iman
Speak
Better
Language
First
Foreign
Foreign Language
Italian
Than
English
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
Imelda May
Myself
Language
Own
Musically
My Own
Make
Read
Am
Educated
Works
Play
Ear
I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
Irvine Welsh
Music
Best
Language
Way
Best Way
Beat
Excitement
Almost
Like
House
Wanted
Rhythmic
Use
Capture
Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with Richard Avedon, that's not very far from acting. Besides the fact that you don't have a partner to react to, the body language is the same.
Isabella Rossellini
You
Language
Partner
Kind
Besides
Some
Fact
Catalogue
Like
React
Very
Modeling
Same
Maybe
Far
Richard
Working
Body
Acting
Body Language
Tedious
Language is something that I take great interest in.
Ishaan Khatter
Great
Language
Something
Take
Interest
Most people, throughout history, haven't learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and to a shoemaker. You speak differently to your mother, who comes from Burgundy, and to your father, who comes from Swabia.
Ivan Illich
History
You
People
Speak
Mother
Language
Father
Throughout
Exclusion
Most
Learn
Learned
Another
Burgundy
Your
Who
Differently
Peasant
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Ivan Turgenev
Alone
Great
You
Fate
Language
Free
Country
Doubt
Righteous
Dreary
Russian
Support
Powerful
Days
Comfort
Oh
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
J. L. Austin
Word
Language
Claim
Ordinary
Certainly
Such A Thing
Thing
Last
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J. M. Coetzee
Writing
Smart
Language
Enough
Diligently
Say
Claims
Would
Follow
She
Insulting
Limits
Were
Lady
After
Explaining
Means
Her
Elizabeth
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
History
Humanity
Language
Invention
Before
Extraordinary
Everything
Possible
Share
Most
Makes
Came
The History Of
Which
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