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• The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, Achievement, Growing

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• As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Mean, Looks

  Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

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• Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them.

  Constance Hale

  Appreciate, Giving, Tools

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• We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun is. It is almost second nature to us to prefer explanations . . . with a large vocabulary. We are much more comfortable when we are assured that the sunflower turns because it is heliotropic. The trouble with that kind of talk is that it tempts us to think that we know what the sunflower is up to. But we don't. The sunflower is a mystery, just as every single thing in the universe is.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Thinking, Sunflower, Kind

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• My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.

  Karen Russell

  Class, Dumb, My Favorite

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• The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.

  Loren Eiseley

  Lying, Night, Eggs

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• My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

  Charles Frazier

  Biting, Opinion, Problem

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.81, Random House

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• Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, Made, Persons

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a vocabulary thing or a right-to-left thing or script supervisor stuff. It's a way of thinking about the film and the shots and the way they fit together, what you need and what you don't need, and what you can get away with if you have to.

  Joe Dante

  Thinking, Editors, Together

  "INTERVIEW: What You Can Get Away With: The Collegial Cutting Room Collaborators of Joe Dante, Part 2". Interview with Peter Tonguette, www.indiewire.com. January 14, 2012.

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• Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."

  Edwidge Danticat

  Powerful, Talking, Earthquakes

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. June 2010.

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• Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings.

  Ralph Nader

  Real, Games, Personality

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Christian, Country, Buddhist

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• Retirement is not in my vocabulary.

  Betty White

  Retirement

  "Q&A with Betty White: At 88, this dame's still game". Interview with Susan Wloszcznya, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 21, 2010.

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• The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

  Edward Abbey

  Entrepreneur, Taught, Developers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Pain, Journey

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy.
  An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull passenger roster of sanctioned curriculum, plus the baggage of an approved, limited vocabulary. The trick is to design your chartered bus to be as cool and sexy as a motorcycle.

  Mo Willems

  Sexy, Fun, Book

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• One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

  Jack Woodford

  Jobs, Writing, Firsts

  Jack Woodford (2012). “Trial and Error”, p.126, askmar publishing

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• I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

  J. G. Ballard

  Believe, Ideas, Literature

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• We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reality, Opposites, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

  David Brooks

  Frustration, Sound, World

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat with readers, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

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• I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was.... Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings. I can spend a lot of time with objects, and they leave me as satisfied as a good meal. I don't think pop artists feel that way.

  Jim Dine

  Artist, Thinking, Feelings

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• One of the problems I see with these comics on television, particularly cable television, is, since you can say anything in terms of sex and scatological references and so on, therefore, you should do it. So they all limit themselves to these subjects and this vocabulary. My objection is that it is a lack of articulateness. Irreverence is easy, but what is hard is wit. Wit is what these comedians lack.

  Tom Lehrer

  Sex, Comedian, Say Anything

  Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means

  Doris Humphrey

  Strong, Mean, Force

  Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”

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• The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story adequately enough in what we have termed culturally common stories. To some extent, the stories of a culture are observable by inspecting the vocabulary of that culture. Often entire stories are embodied in one very culture-specific word. The story words unique to a culture reveal cultural differences.

  Roger Schank

  Unique, Simple, Differences

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• I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education.

  Duane Chapman

  Mad, Brain, Different

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