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It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct.

~Charles T. Canady

Topics: Assert Constitution Does Duty English English Language Entrusted Guilty Him Language Not Guilty Official President Violated Violence Who

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I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

~Chris Pine

Topics: Case Dangerous Demand Done English English Language Flows Implies Just Language Life Most Responsibility Should Think Which Word I Think

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I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

~Christopher Moore

Topics: Breakfast Dog English English Language General Geography History King Language Lear Made

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One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media.

~Clay Shirky

Topics: About Angeles Any Around Been Centered Cities English English Language Fifty Group Just Kind Landscape Language London Los Los Angeles Media New New York One Of The Problems People Period Problems Relatively Set Stable Talking Three Through Very Which Working Years York

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My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.

~Corin Tucker

Topics: Children English English Language Given Language Love Me Parents Passed Reading Something

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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

~Dan Fogelberg

Topics: Abuse English English Language Language Laugh Love Main Main Thing Thing I Love

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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

~Daniel Day-Lewis

Topics: Bless Come Country Custodian Driven English English Language Finesse Great Household Just Language Parents Sentence Structure Syntax Them Things Us Where

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The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

~David Tang

Topics: Cash Dreaded English English Language Flow Language Most Negative Three Words

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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: English English Language Imagination Itself Language Nobody Property Special

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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

~Diane Wakoski

Topics: American British Definitely Distinguish English English Language Language Other Poetry Wish

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