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I want to try to have as many people as possible interested in my content, so it needs to go across language barriers.
Alex Hirschi
Needs
People
Try
Language
Possible
Content
Go
Want
Interested
Across
Barriers
Many
I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
P. J. O'Rourke
Together
Language
Feeling
Sense
Spend
I Can
Some
Bears
Kneeling
Days
Likeness
Make
Around
Verbs
Squash
Sentence
Noun
Reason
Good, effective pop music isn't just verbal language. It takes a good physical beat to make you feel something.
Roland Orzabal
Music
Good
You
Language
Physical
Something
Beat
Takes
Feel
Make
Verbal
Effective
Just
Pop
Pop Music
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
P. J. O'Rourke
Politics
Hope
Government
Change
Language
Big
Translation
Hope And Change
Phrase
Only
Wit
Fat
Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
Language
Out
Muslims
Only
Perhaps
Understand
Koran
Billion
Actually
Million
Jazz came from the streets, hip-hop came from the streets. It's just a different language. It's all borne out of hard times, struggle, and the fight to have equality and things be better.
DJ Premier
Struggle
Fight
Equality
Better
Language
Jazz
Out
Borne
Hip-Hop
Came
Times
Just
Different
Different Language
Hard
Hard Times
Things
Streets
There has been this resurgence in anti-LGBT language in the U.K. and the U.S., and the rest of the world. In the U.S. we've heard it with Trump's rise. Here, I've heard language borrowed from the most conservative anti-gay voices in the U.S. used by some gay and lesbian people against trans people.
Dustin Lance Black
Gay
People
World
Conservative
Language
Rest
Lesbian
Has-Been
Some
Borrowed
Rise
Voices
Resurgence
Most
Been
Heard
Trump
Against
Used
Here
I can identify with Riho because I was the talent that didn't speak the language in Japan. I'm very excited for the fans to kind of build a relationship with her because it's going to take work from both sides to understand one another.
Brandi Rhodes
Work
Relationship
Speak
Fans
Language
Build
Sides
I Can
Kind
Both
Both Sides
Take
Excited
Talent
Identify
Another
Because
Understand
Very
Going
Japan
Her
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau
Best
You
Language
Calm
Before
Must
Excitement
Merely
Picturesque
Oracles
Utter
We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Language
Will
About
He
Come
Know
Him
Himself
Child
May
Little
Little Child
Capacity
Ask
Jesus
Adapt
I’m obsessed with 'Wicked', and I’d love to play Nala in 'The Lion King'. Some of the songs from 'The Lion King' are performed in my native tongue, so when the cast performed an extract from the show in 'Strictly' in the language I grew up with, it made me cry.
Oti Mabuse
Lion
Love
Me
Language
Made
King
Wicked
Extract
Strictly
Some
Cast
Songs
Obsessed
Performed
Cry
Up
Lion King
Native
Grew
Show
Play
Tongue
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Love
Character
People
Language
I Love
Exacting
Fine
German
Traits
Many
Swiss
Expressive
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
Bill Gates
People
Language
Meet
Only
Know
Comfortable
Overseas
Five
Languages
English
I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.
Roy Blount, Jr.
Words
Money
Worth
School
Language
College
Other
Took
Our
Once
High
High School
Studied
Most
French
Course
Italian
German
Any
Anymore
Anything
Crash
Might
Far
English
The film business is just one of our verticals. We have wanted for some time to make inroads into the English language market, because I think that over time such films can cross over into the international market.
Ronnie Screwvala
Time
Business
Language
Think
Films
Market
Our
I Think
Some
Cross
Over
Make
Because
Just
Wanted
Just One
English
English Language
International
Film
Film Business
Gujaratis are really cute people, and I find Gujarati to be a very sweet language.
Urvashi Rautela
People
Language
Cute
Sweet
Find
Very
Really
The biggest issue for me has been the language because I speak so much German now. I've had to focus on my English and find more words to describe what I want to say and also soften my tone. It was quite stiff from 20 years of speaking German, so when I started speaking more English, oh my god, my tongue was like: 'Argh'!
Motsi Mabuse
God
Me
Words
Speak
Language
Focus
Soften
Say
Has-Been
Find
More
Had
Like
Also
Because
Stiff
Issue
Been
Years
German
Quite
Oh
Oh My God
Want
Biggest
Much
Speaking
English
Describe
Now
Tone
Started
Tongue
I think we've lost the idea that politicians are part of the humanities. And we think of them as part of a natural science tradition, and we don't expect them to have the contact with literature, with history, with the richness of descriptive language that the humanities have always stood for. And I think that's a great loss.
Martha Nussbaum
Great
History
Science
Natural
Language
Lost
Politicians
Humanities
Think
I Think
Part
Contact
Idea
Always
Tradition
Loss
Expect
Stood
Literature
Them
Natural Science
Richness
Descriptive
I'm glad I did South films because I feel they have moulded me. They are really loud and are in a different language, so it's not easy.
Amyra Dastur
Me
Language
Films
Easy
I Feel
Glad
Feel
Because
South
Loud
Did
Different
Different Language
Really
What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
Ursula Dubosarsky
People
Words
Word
Language
Nervous
About
Diving
Spy
Grab
Want
Hold
Really
Playing
I was stage-struck from an early age. I just loved the language. We lived quite near Stratford so I would cycle and watch the plays.
Ken Loach
Age
Language
Would
Quite
Just
Loved
Cycle
Stratford
Lived
Near
Watch
Early
Early Age
Plays
Gujarati is a very sweet language and I have always used elements from Gujarati songs in my music.
Bappi Lahiri
Music
Language
Sweet
Songs
Always
Very
Used
Elements
Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
Michael Moore
People
Speak
World
Language
First
Other
Percent
Lead
Come
First Place
How
Passport
Handful
Than
Did
Just
Place
Us
Should
Ignorant
Ignorant People
English
Even
You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.
Noam Chomsky
You
Learning
Language
Would
Exactly
No Idea
About
Except
Could
Allow
Pick
Idea
Longer
Like
Make
Infant
Up
Just
Standard
English
Expressions
Imagine
I'd read Shakespeare in school, translated into isiXhosa, and loved the stories, but I hadn't realised before I started reading the English text how powerful the language was - the great surging speeches Othello has.
John Kani
Great
School
Language
Reading
Before
Othello
Shakespeare
Powerful
Read
How
Surging
Text
Stories
Loved
Realised
Translated
English
Started
Started Reading
Speeches
Shakespeare's words paint pictures in glorious colour in my language. They were written by a man whose use of words fits exactly into Xhosa.
John Kani
Man
Words
Language
Glorious
Exactly
Shakespeare
Colour
Written
Pictures
Were
Fits
Use
Paint
Whose
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