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Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.
Edward Sapir
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When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.


Sarah MacLean
Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.
Elizabeth Bibesco
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.


Martha Graham
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By the fruits which it bears is the tree known.


Jan Hus
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.


Zakk Wylde
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I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
Tom Wopat
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Jean Baudrillard
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People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.
Lucy Liu
For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.
Van Morrison
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Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.'
Christian Louboutin
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When I was young, my mom realized I could dance and hold a beat, and I really danced just for fun. It was good exercise.
Tom Holland
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Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.
Maria Sharapova
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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.


Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!
Nicholas D'Agosto
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.


George Eliot
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.


Isaac Hayes
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali
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I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
Maya Angelou
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