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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.

We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'

I'm interested in aesthetics, language, art, fashion, everything.

Every fighter has a duty to boxing to not bring themselves or the sport into disrepute by foul language or behaviour so that boxing can be seen as a gentleman's sport.

We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.

All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.

I always think if you speak to someone in their second language, you speak to their head. If you speak in their first, you speak to their heart. I've always tried to let players see that.

We don't need more divisive language or programs and policies that are going to tear the fabric of the nation apart.

It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.

There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency of language to respond to what happens to you.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

When I started playing cricket, I knew that my physique is not at all like a typical fast bowler. My body language is also different, and I am not aggressive by nature; thus, my focus was always on my skills.

It's not difficult to balance both Bollywood and South. I would not be able to select between either one and say that I prefer working in one. Each film, each language, each team, and set offers you different experiences.

My mother is Bosnian. Obviously I understand the language. Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, it's all the same.

Honestly, from a very young age, before I had the language, really - anywhere that I encountered binary, whether it was in clothing or in toys or in media, it always made me uncomfortable.

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity and not having the language for it, and not having those conversations, that now I'm so eager to talk about it. Then I learn more about myself and other people.

That Portuguese language is so beautiful when it is sung and even spoken.