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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Life Art Language Speech Will High

If you are in a breakup, you might as well go all the way and spend the summer in Samarkand, with no air-conditioning, learning a language you have no use for. At least it adds some romance to a depressing situation.

Learning Language You Situation Go

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

World Language Learn You Situation

If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.

Business Daily Language Will Economy

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

Family Parents College Language Know

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Brian Kernighan

Learning Language You More Never

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

Imagination Me Language Desire Way

When I sit down with filmmakers, I feel like we speak the same language in a lot of ways. We watch the same movies and have the same influences. If anything, it creates a dialogue that makes my work more effective.

Work Speak Language Feel Down More

Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

Work Good New York Me Book Language

Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.

Language Interesting Opinions

For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.

Yourself People Treat Think Language

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Good Language Devil Sarcasm Long

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

Welcome Ideas Language Where Were

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.

Love Imagination Language Learn Take

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.

Live Value Poetry World Language

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Live Technology Today Language Try

In early 2010, we launched our first localized version of 'WhatsApp' for iPhone. It included Spanish and German language translations, to name a couple.

Name Language Early First iPhone

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.

Words Language You Find Knowing

Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.

Faith Thinking Language Philosophy

The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious.

Rich Language Hilarious Detailed

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.

Process Language Dream I Can Boring

Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.

Language Through Cannot Understood

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

Language Bad Things Offensive Were

When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and being immersed in a tradition and history I had never experienced. It took a while to adjust to living there and learning the language, but now I have lots of friends. I get the best of two completely different worlds.

Learning History Best Language Lake

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