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Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
Gerard Way

Music, Politics, Time

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene V. Debs

Revolution, Heroic, Languages

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
Sri Aurobindo

Human, Creative, Her

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
Chinua Achebe

Her, Against, Artist

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
Pat Robertson

Everything, Big, Tolerance

The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
Pat Robertson

God, Wisdom, Daily

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George Dennison Prentice

Kindness, Lost, Broken

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
Martha Plimpton

Equality, American, Anyone

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
Jeanette Winterson

Hate, Nothing, Lesbian

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck

Work, Enjoy, Joy

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
Camille Paglia

Poetry, Words, Down

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Serious, Deal, Determined

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Andrew Johnson

Mind, Poor, Spell

The word must is not to be used to princes.
Elizabeth I

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Joseph Conrad

Trust, Power, Put

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'
Larry David

Happy, Anyone, Nor

Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.
Larry David

Life, Religion, Live

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.
Rick Perry

Government, After, Free

I hate the word wholesome.
Julie Andrews

Hate, Wholesome

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'
Julie Andrews

Home, Child, Uttered

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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun

Greatest, Learned, Impossible

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Fresh, Ground, Seed

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.
Paula Poundstone

School, Put, Until

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Happiness, Happy, Person

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
John Dryden

Argument, Blow, Tis

There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also,'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type -'juniorize.'
Susan Orlean

Bad, Words, High

Love doesn't make the word go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones

Love, Makes, Worthwhile

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.
Henry Louis Gates

Long, Remember, Else

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Learn, Again

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
Alan Rickman

Active, Passive, Maverick

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