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I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

Annie Leibovitz

Artist, Style, Different

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The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The secret is to make your mind work for you not against you. This means constantly being positive. Constantly setting up challenges you can meet either today, next week, or next month. "I can't..." should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Mean, Bodybuilding, Next Week

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall (1993). “Arnold”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the terrestrial manifestation of an empyrean Nollopian desire, that desire most surely being that the letter "Z" should be utterly excised--fully extirpated--absolutively heave-ho'ed from our communal vocabulary!

Mark Dunn

Fall, July, Desire

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It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

Jason Patric

Interesting, Helping, De Niro

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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

Dorothea Lange

Eye, People, Disappear

Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

Adrian Belew

Appreciate, Technique, Sound

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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

Long, Use, Language

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"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Louisa May Alcott

Friendship, Teacher, Cute Best Friend

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Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

Margaret Mahy

Character, Differences, Use

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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mind, Mastery, Syntax

Spectator 19 Nov. 1937 "The Psychology of Advertising"

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As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is whether this vocabulary is limited, like our own vocabulary that goes from A to Zed, or whether this vocabulary can carry on growing. And to me, I hope that it carries on growing.

Mario Testino

Voice, Identity, Growing

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Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.

Rajneesh

Doe, Tomorrow, Miscellaneous

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We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages in some way. And from this code of information we then make a basic vocabulary of concepts and a basic grammar of laws, which jointly describe the inner organization that nature translates into the happenings and the appearances we meet.

Jacob Bronowski

Nature, Science, Law

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I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.

Og Mandino

Greatness, Phrases, Fool

Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.38, Bantam

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Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren't up to the job.

Alex Garland

Dream, Jobs, Memories

Alex Garland (2005). “The Coma”, p.135, Penguin

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Losing is not in my vocabulary.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Inspirational, Motivational, Football

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At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with their large vocabularies. By the excesses of their language, these young men and women try to hide their sense of inexperience. With maturity the writer becomes more secure in his ideas. He finds his real tone and develops a simple and effective style.

Jorge Luis Borges

Real, Writing, Maturity

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Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity- as brother, son, father, lover-to examine the sources of love's enduring and failed aspects ... I admire Davis' emotional vocabulary, his attentive generosity and tenderness. Keep your eye on this gifted newcomer.

Robin Becker

Brother, Father, Eye

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What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.

E. L. Doctorow

Writing, Knowing, Mind

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I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all

Todd Barry

Interesting, Trying, Ifs

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Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

Slash

Risk, Existence

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I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

Glenn Close

Thinking, Mental Illness, Our Family

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Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Philosophical, People, Purpose

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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

Pamela Anderson

Thinking, Trying, Moderation

"Pamela Anderson: 'I'm not talking about my boobs - that's very 1999'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

Kenneth Burke

Reflection, Reality, Men

Kenneth Burke, Joseph R. Gusfield (1989). “On Symbols and Society”, p.158, University of Chicago Press

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