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Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in. -- Christina Ricci
The ways in which language changes never ceases to interest me. -- Genevieve Valentine
With clothing and fashion, the language changes - the gloves come off, and we all can participate. -- Jim Drain
I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms. -- Bill Walsh
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over. -- Delta Burke
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over." -- Delta Burke
It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today. -- Terry Crowley
Language changes very fast. -- John Maynard Smith
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. -- Alan Perlis
We need to keep switching up the language around climate change. -- Cate Blanchett
I have set out to change the language of the international system. -- Clare Short
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. -- Marcus du Sautoy
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. -- T. S. Eliot
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. -- Alan Rickman
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The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places. -- Francis Arinze
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history. -- Frank Luntz
It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did. -- Sal Albanese
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality. -- Morris Graves
In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects. -- Octavio Paz
The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed. -- David Souter
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world. -- Wim Wenders
In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself. -- Gunter Grass
To change your language you must change your life. -- Derek Walcott
A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change. -- Peter Farb
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language." -- Marcus du Sautoy
In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs. -- E. J. Dionne
I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that. -- Bruno Zheng Wu
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do. -- Gertrude Stein
His heart is kind and those big hands are soft. He speaks a language that can change what I believe. -- Amanda Marshall
I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise, -- Jacqueline Woodson
Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others. -- William Safire
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. -- David Nicholls
Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results. -- Gordon Ramsay
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb. -- Italo Calvino
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language. -- June Jordan
if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead. -- Rosalie Maggio
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer. -- Robert MacNeil
Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it: think tank, tank top. -- Jason Fulford

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