#language

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal. ↗

— Ernest Istook

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English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. ↗

— Ernest Istook

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Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. ↗

— Ernest Istook

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But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. ↗

— Charles Ives

#better #curious #definiteness #extravagant #hope

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965. ↗

— Wanda Jackson

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In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street. ↗

— Charles Simic

#deconstruction #language #poetry #experience

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#history #language #nation #our #uniting