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Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.
Mary McDonnell
Life
Experience
People
Vocabulary
Percentage
Emotional
Emotionally
Part
Primary
Performance
Intellectually
Experienced
Translated
Then
Planet
Certain
Who
Actor
I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
Matthew McConaughey
Love
People
Own
Vocabulary
My Own
Surprises
Linguistics
I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.
Michael Eric Dyson
World
Black
Sense
Took
Everything
Heterosexual
Vocabulary
General
Given
Outside
Suppose
Most
Fell
Sure
Acceptable
Norm
Same
Which
View
Inherited
Orientation
Start
World View
Christians
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
Michael Polanyi
Language
Will
Long
Universe
Vocabulary
Structure
Implied
Questions
Confirm
Which
Ask
Certain
Use
Theory
Thereby
To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
Mos Def
Me
Experience
World
Job
Feelings
Everyday
Otherwise
Way
Able
Vocabulary
Provide
Intelligent
Articulate
Artist
Meaningful
Means
Useful
Express
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
You
Words
School
Memorize
Vocabulary
Sort
Lot
Goes
Things
The words 'give up,' 'raise the white flag' do not exist in my vocabulary.
Niko Kovac
Words
White
Vocabulary
Give
Exist
Up
Flag
Raise
Donald Trump was sharp; he was very perceptive. He was engaging. He had this expansive vocabulary, and he very seldom took breaks.
Omarosa Manigault Newman
Took
Vocabulary
Perceptive
Seldom
Had
He
Sharp
Trump
Very
Expansive
Donald
Donald Trump
Breaks
Engaging
I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
Pamela Anderson
Try
Word
Think
Vocabulary
Moderation
Which
I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
Pankaj Mishra
Ignorance
Fear
Political
Islam
Think
Vocabulary
No Reason
Hysterical
Western
Us
Reason
Bring
We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
Pat Mastelotto
Time
Guitar
Try
Listening
Looking
Enjoy
Our
Ourselves
Vocabulary
Something
More
Develop
Buddies
Trying
Same
Same Time
Anything
While
Converse
Might
Create
Help
Thing
I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.
Patrick Warburton
Work
Half
Become
Once
Married
Find
Vocabulary
Having
Point
Through
Sharp
Math
Dumber
Grade
Being
Children
Them
Much
Help
Even
Actually
I think there is no future whatsoever in 3D. It does nothing to the grammar and syntax or vocabulary of cinema. And you get fed up with it in exactly 3 minutes.
Peter Greenaway
Future
You
Cinema
Nothing
Think
Syntax
Exactly
Minutes
No Future
Vocabulary
Fed
Fed Up
Does
Up
Get
Whatsoever
Grammar
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved.
Peter L. Berger
Values
Community
Churches
Distinguishes
Religious
Vocabulary
General
Mainly
Between
Involved
Continuum
Handling
Heavier
Dosage
I wish I had paid more attention in my psych class in college. I would've had a broader vocabulary to draw from.
Phyllis Smith
Class
College
Wish
Broader
Draw
Vocabulary
More
Had
Attention
Paid
I do rap and speak in Malayalam but only to save my life as my vocabulary in the language is not as good as it is in Hindi.
Raftaar
Life
Good
Speak
Language
My Life
Rap
Vocabulary
Only
Hindi
Save
I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.
Roscoe Mitchell
Try
Think
Musical
Vocabulary
Match
Always
Situations
Different
I can get by quite well in Italian or German, though if the discussion got to a high level, I'd run out of vocabulary. I'm stronger in French and Swedish.
Roy Hodgson
Stronger
Though
Out
Run
High
High Level
Vocabulary
French
Well
Got
Italian
German
Discussion
Get
Quite
Swedish
Level
I'm a vocabulary nerd.
Sam Trammell
Nerd
Vocabulary
I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so the one thing that set me back was being Indian. And I couldn't do anything about it.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Me
Rest
Stage
Every
Other
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Back
Way
One Thing
Indian
About
Vocabulary
Through
Points
Terms
Sure
Because
Reference
Cultural
Being
The One Thing
Anything
Manner
Thing
Set
One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
Seth Godin
People
Vocabulary
Voice
New
Doing
Blog
Encourage
Available
Act
Your
Reason
The word 'midget' is a slur. It evolved from P. T. Barnum's era of circuses and freak shows. Society has evolved. So should our vocabulary. Language is a powerful tool. It does not just name our society. It shapes it.
Sinead Burke
Word
Language
Society
Tool
Our
Evolved
Freak
Vocabulary
Shapes
Powerful
Name
Powerful Tool
Does
Era
Just
Midget
Should
Shows
Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this very unique dialogue with the Lord. I utilize my own sort of street vocabulary - nothing slang that would be unacceptable.
Stephen Baldwin
Prayer
Reality
People
Own
Nothing
Unacceptable
Would
Would-Be
Vocabulary
My Own
More
More Than Anything
Share
Like
Sort
Lord
Dialogue
Very
Than
Quite
Anything
Scripture
Unique
Utilize
Slang
Street
Thing
I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.
Steve Harvey
Man
Trust
Quality
Writing
Believe
Best-Seller
Vocabulary
New
Times
Author
York
New York
New York Times
Skills
We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'
Studs Terkel
Hope
Good
Day
You
Word
Tomorrow
Nice
Other
Hopefully
Pretty
Pretty Good
Vocabulary
More
Along
Perhaps
Well
How
Doing
Than
Any
Going
Often
Use
Things
If 'gay' is not in your vocabulary, if being gay is not an option in your world, then you're far more likely to see your kid as anything but gay.
Suzanne Brockmann
Gay
You
World
Kid
See
Vocabulary
More
Likely
Option
Being
Anything
Far
Then
Your
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