"At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features."

-- Roman Jakobson

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“To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.”
“Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.”
“When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.”
“The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.”
“A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion. If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.”
“I believe in workers rights when people are doing a good job. If somebody needs support I am always there, but if they're taking the piss, I am hard on them.”

Source : "Gruff and tough operator rings off with a billion" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2006.
“Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.”
“The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.”

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