#lang

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

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The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. ↗

— Roger Babson

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

— Balthus

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The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#language-of-art #signs #art

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

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Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. ↗

— William Bennett

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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#beyond #dead #fire #language #living

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer. ↗

— Marilyn Horne

#composer #even #foreign #language #limited

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#careful #desperately #give #gives #gonna

The change of language is a change in reality. ↗

— Stephen Mitchell

#reality #change