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• I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and is never heard on stage. . . . I'm better at writing than I am at organizing [political action]. SLAUGHTER CITY is my small contribution. If it gives people a voice it is worth something. So often we forget what we are no longer hearing.

  Naomi Wallace

  Writing, Cities, Voice

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• A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

  Paul Valery

  Writing, Mind, Action

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• Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

  Yann Martel

  Love, Blessing, Qualms About

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

  Mary Wesley

  Friends, Important, My Best Friend

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• Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with Normal Life are bullshit artists of the highest degree, looking to excuse their antisocial tendencies and bad manners away with a flourish of vocabulary and the semantic waving of hands.

  Matt Fraction

  Artist, Hands, Bullshit

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• I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

  Kiernan Shipka

  Ballet, Different, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Use, Cult, Dictionary

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• What is comfortable fashion? To be comfortable, that can't be in the vocabulary of fashion. If you want to be comfortable, stay home in your pajamas.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Home, Want

  Interview with Nicki Minaj, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous.

  Julian Burnside

  Communication, Media, Soul

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• Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season.

  Ralph Rucci

  Style, Lines, Evening

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• WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary.

  Sanford Meisner

  Important, Important Words, Actors

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• Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Coercion, Reason, Symbols

  Joseph Campbell (1968). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”

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• Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Soul, Superstitions, Taste

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• Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances where many different perspectives could be brought to bear on a series of phenomena associated with the topics under consideration. Yet all the time it was a subjective creation under the auspices of light and sound, dealing with a large slice of cinema's vocabulary.

  Peter Greenaway

  Moving, Opportunity, Light

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The words: never, can't, quit, and fail, are not in my vocabulary.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Quitting

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• Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

  Diane Ackerman

  Passion, Fighting, Love Is

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.19, Vintage

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• You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.

  Jack Canfield

  Responsibility, Taking Responsibility, I Can

  Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer (2009). “The Success Principles(TM)”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.

  Robin Sharma

  Use, Language, Victim

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Apr 30, 2014

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• Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

  Jim Rohn

  Future, Entrepreneur, Vision

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 02, 2016

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• The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, Conversation, Worst

  Karl Barth (1986). “A Karl Barth Reader”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified.

  Michel Foucault

  Strong, Psychics, Jurisprudence

  "The History of Sexuality, Volume I: The Will to Knowledge". Book by Michel Foucault, 1978.

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• Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Class, Style

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.253

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• Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.

  Bergen Evans

  Reflection, Intellectual, Progress

  Bergen Evans (1963). “The word-a-day vocabulary builder”, Ballantine Books

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• The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Teacher, Home, Men

  Erich Maria Remarque (2000). “All quiet on the western front and related readings”

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• The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual.

  Marcia Siegel

  Order, Ballet Class, Discipline

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