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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… — Joan Miro
I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary. — Vince Young
Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements. — Robert Genn
We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could… — Steve Jobs
People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their… — Tony Robbins
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in… — Chuck Thompson
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem… — Mark Crispin Miller
A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base… — Ari Marmell
My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries — Andre Nickatina
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic… — John Frusciante
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and… — Anna Friel
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as… — Fred Frith
People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about… — Nadia Giosia
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. — Mos Def
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. — Ani DiFranco
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and… — Andrew Eldritch
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start… — Larry Flynt
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… — Marilyn Hacker
I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't. — Steve Harvey
Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail. — Alicia Keys
When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly… — Madeleine M. Kunin
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
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. — Tommy Lasorda
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. — Malcolm X
I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. — Matthew McConaughey

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