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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate. Anna Deavere Smith

Day Every Day People Every Our About Vocabulary Seems More More And More Emotionally Talk Because Afraid Race Inadequate Many Loaded

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures. Annie Leibovitz

Ways Vocabulary Take Pictures Learned Create Palette

For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination. Anthony Marra

Daily Words Strip Detailing John Vocabulary More Unruly Stuffed Named Doctrine Tiger Boy Comic Comic Strip His Preached Than Hobbes Predestination After Packed Theologian Who Whose Set

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white. Artur Davis

Words Black Black And White White Think Our Vocabulary Most South Overused

I've always been a big fan of entertainment. Having cable gave me access to HBO, Showtime, and The Movie Channel. Constantly taking in all these films from different eras and different styles has really given me a good vocabulary in how to talk about movies. Baron Vaughn

Good Me Entertainment Big Films Gave Channel Constantly About Vocabulary Given Having Cable Taking Talk Styles Access Always How Eras Been Big Fan Different Movie Fan Movies Really Different Styles Showtime

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. Bjarke Ingels

Architecture Building Vocabulary Restricted Town House Limited Block Either

Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary of how God works with the specific things that He does, and we don't know how to align ourselves with what He is doing so that we can be His vehicle on the earth to deliver a miracle. Bruce Wilkinson

God Miracles Think Earth Align Ourselves Possibly Miracle About Vocabulary Could Deliver He Vehicle Know Most Does How Doing His Us Works Specific Things

Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Me Book Writing World Else Enter Vocabulary Entity Wrote Were Forget Anything Anything Else Inhabit Separate Each Ever

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied. Christopher Monckton

Wife Vocabulary Varied According Use Wide

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. Christopher Reeve

Time Day Trials Words Impossible Will Community Live Symptoms Minimize Vocabulary Part Unsolvable Longer Scientific Disease Closer Move Just Them Each Each Day Injury Eliminate

The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with. Damian Loeb

People Communicate Reflect Vocabulary Trying Use

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas. Daniel Yergin

Natural People First Energy Focused Security Find Vocabulary Imported Geopolitical Question Very American Dependence Common Different Natural Gas Meaning Energy Security Much Different Meaning Different People Notion Radically Europeans Now Right Gas

I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book. David Robinson

Great Me Attention Span Book Father Made Believe Months One Book Vocabulary Takes Attention Read Reader Dictionary Span Little Poor

I had the most incredible time on 'Dancing With the Stars.' It never occurred to me when I took it on that I would physically not be able to do it because that's not in an Olympic competitor's vocabulary! It was the most wonderful environment, such a nurturing environment. Dorothy Hamill

Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art. Eric Kandel

Art Spiritual Mark Indeed Vocabulary Ideas Most Particularly Limited Scope Modern Essential Artists Intentionally Convey Even Expression Ad

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design. Eva Zeisel

Emotions Communicate Made Design Vocabulary Through Emphasized Limited Lines Curve Against Modernism Straight Century Rebelling Expressive Harder Ornament Designer

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. Evelyn Waugh

Needs Words Will Constant Vocabulary Names Die Forgets

I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary. Gallagher

People Laugh Vocabulary Know

You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. George C. Wolfe

You Language Way Adjust Evolve Vocabulary Talking Depending Each Actor

A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary. Gillian Flynn

Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel that the political mainstream is not articulating a vocabulary or policies oriented to their needs and aspirations. Guy Standing

Needs Vote People Political Lost Vocabulary Never Mainstream Feel Clearly Countries Obtain Democratic Policies Articulating So-Called Aspirations Oriented Many Right Millions Millions Of People

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