"A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language."

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Source : "We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân". Documentary, January 10, 2011.

Noam Chomsky

#Communication Quotes #Community Quotes #Culture Quotes

“You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.”
“All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.”

Source : Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”
“My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .”
“Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.”

Source : Samantha Hunt (2009). “The Invention of Everything Else”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two.”

Source : Willa Gibbs (1953). “Seed of Mischief”
“Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.”
“Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.”
“I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.”

Source : "Talking About Singing with Anna Camp". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2012.

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