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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn
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Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.


Les Claypool
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The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.


Alejandro Jodorowsky
Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.
Martha Beck
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The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Jim Elliot
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
T. E. Hulme
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
Larry Wall
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You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.
Johnny Vegas
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In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.
Freida Pinto
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.


T. E. Hulme
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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.


Daniel Kahneman
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The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Marilyn Hacker
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When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
Joan Jett
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America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
Norman Mailer
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Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.


Mike Birbiglia
Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
Stephen Baker
Tags: You Than Any
I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.
Elmore Leonard
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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.
Edward Sapir
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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.


Logan Pearsall Smith
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I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too.
Lauren Oliver
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