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Expression Quotes
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
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"Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices."
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"There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world."
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"Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed."
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"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
18
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
15
"Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear."
15
"I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression."
14
"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind."
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"We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we're sleeping,There's no escape from this obsession."
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"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
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"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
12
"George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."
11
"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."
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"Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun."
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"It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head."
11
"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
10
"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
10
"The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans."
10
"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
10
"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel."
10
"Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures."
10
"Creativity is leading the life king-size, despite you being a pauper!"
10
"You are the expression of consciousness, your thoughts are the expression of you."
10
"The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it."
10
"Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner."
10
"I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!"
9
"For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality."
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"When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression."
9
"Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose."
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"Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production."
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"Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression."
9
"When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me."
9
"I mean every word of my divine chaos."
9
"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."
9
"From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true."
8
"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."
8
"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."
8
"But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression."
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"There are worse prisons than words."
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"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
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"Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on."
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"Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours."
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