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I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

Brain World Believe Language Over

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

Freedom Language Person Knowing Air

I think a lot of Marx was quite sloppy. There was all sorts of politically aggressive language when he lacked arguments for things.

Think Language Aggressive Things He

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

People Language Talking Country Want

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

Language Way Tool Writer Rather

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Poetry Facts Language Creating Poet

Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which a language is passed on from one generation to the next.

Writing Language Generation Three

Finality is not the language of politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Politics Language Finality

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

Language Point English Quite Learned

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Painting Language Know Say Paint

People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.

People Proud Speak Think Language

Music truly is the universal language.

Music Language Universal Truly

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

Language Create Hard Same Task Own

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

Future People Language Political Own

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

Love Value Rich Language Know Want

One belongs to one's language as a writer.

Language Writer Belongs

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

Language Transition Lost Important

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.

Poetry Bible Language Contemporary

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together.

Together Wife Words Language Loved

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.

Age Culture Language Study Up Moved

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

Anthony Bourdain

Learning Breakfast Me Speak Language

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

Language Attention Dislike Only

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

Me Language Cinema Everyone Own

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

Good Best Poetry Song Language

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