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• I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.

  Vince Young

  Nervous, Nervousness

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• I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.

  Joan Miro

  Discovery, Different, Vineyards

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• I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

  Keith Urban

  Taken, Kids, Two

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• Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Powerful, Nice, Giving

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• To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

  Yves Klein

  Communication, Soul, Explaining

  Sidra Stich, Yves Klein, Hayward Gallery, Museum Ludwig, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1994). “Yves Klein”

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• Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.

  David Gilmour

  Musical, Use, Picks

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

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• This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Reflection, Doe, Culture

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.106, Routledge

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• In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Mean, Simple

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• Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Hate, Practice, Language

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 10, 2017

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• In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Rivalry, Connotation, Should

  "Kafka and His Precursors" (1951) (translation by James E. Irby)

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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

  Emotional, People, Actors

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

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• Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

  Paul Fry

  Special, Fiction, Satire

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• When I draw it feels very natural - intuitive. I don't think about it, I just do it. My visual vocabulary is self-selecting and second nature to me. Writing is harder for me. It's something I struggle with. Drawing always comes first.

  Arthur Jones

  Struggle, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't "fail." You've "tried your best."

  Jane Seymour

  Want Something, People, Trying

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• There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge in science, and history, and the arts…it is the deep foundation in rich knowledge and vocabulary depth that allows you to access more complex text.

  David Coleman

  Art, Reading, Nuts

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• Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.

  John McPhee

  Book, Rocks, Events

  John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.164, Macmillan

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• For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action.

  Seth

  Events, Action, Moments

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• I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Dream, Get Well

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• Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet. I started reading English books even though I had very limited vocabulary.

  Li Cunxin

  Book, Reading, Focus

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.

  Sydney Pollack

  Light, Lenses, Optics

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it.

  Jason Mraz

  Joy, Messages, Firsts

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.mcsweeneys.net

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• I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one that doesn't use colloquialisms, lyrical flourishes, heavy supplies of metaphor, etc., is a style, and it becomes a writer's characteristic style just as much as a thicker, richer deployment of idiom and vocabulary.

  Lydia Davis

  Believe, Deployment, Style

  Interview with Sarah Manguso, www.believermag.com. January 2008.

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• If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

  Jonathan Demme

  People, Singing, Want

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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