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Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.
Jesse Jackson

Liar, Saying, Him

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!
Alexander Henry

Hope, Country, Flag

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.
Antonio Banderas

Understand, America, Learned

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Alfred North Whitehead

Life, Forward, Human

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Alfred North Whitehead

Nature, Human, Speech

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J. Michael Straczynski

Thoughts, Quality, Sides

Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Robert Delaunay

Nature, Painting, Luminous

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
Michael Moore

Place, Speak, Ignorant

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
Al Pacino

Learned, Shy, Shyness

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
Ralph Fiennes

Film, Act, Second

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
Frantz Fanon

Speak, Means, Support

I would say that jazz is my own language.
Amy Winehouse

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
John Millington Synge

Irish, Soothing

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown

Power, Moon, Hidden

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
Edward T. Hall

Help, Mean, Understand

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Jacques Lacan

Words, Before, Born

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 much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.
Fred Frith

Learning, Find, Speak

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Diane Ackerman

Lie, Together, Emotions

There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
Carlos Santana

Heart, Nothing, Find

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
Carlos Santana

Music, Time, Long

Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra Pound

Good, Keep, Clear

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

History, Destiny, Culture

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.
Jessica Lange

Emotional, Words, Perfect

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Elizabeth Bowen

Statement, Mixture

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
Michael Gove

Learning, Sympathy, Children

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
Jonathan Sacks

Life, Science, Human

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
Deborah Tannen

Power, Through, Realize

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
Miuccia Prada

Today, Yourself, Human

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
Theodore Bikel

Give, Fighting, Chance

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