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I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.'… — Larry Kramer
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language… — Harry Mathews
I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side. — Shaquille O'Neal
Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our… — Anna Deavere Smith
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them… — Henry Petroski
Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this very unique dialogue… — Stephen Baldwin
I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a… — Stephen Amell
The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in… — Thomas George Bonney
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… — Herbert Marcuse
Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using. — David Crystal
Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will. — Phyllis George
One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice. — Seth Godin
The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary. — Judith Jamison
True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and… — Zola Jesus
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument… — Tom Waits
The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for… — Robert Adams
I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't… — Mary C. Neal
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision… — Annie Dillard
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural… — Stephanie Mills
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. — Jorge Luis Borges
Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt. — Sathya Sai Baba
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… — Robert Motherwell
To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. — Yves Klein
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
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals… — Edward Sapir

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