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I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ni**as/Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as/They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you ni**as
Kendrick Lamar
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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham
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If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.
J. Anthony Lukas
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His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.
Jennifer Crusie
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
Yoko Ono
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Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.
Bix Beiderbecke
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I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.
Josh Radnor
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Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
Glenn Greenwald
12.
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Edward Sapir
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A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
Elaine de Kooning
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Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.
LeCrae
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After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.
Henry Watson Fowler
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The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.
Maya Angelou
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I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.
Nick Frost
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Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.
Joe Tye
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All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
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The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds. Not how much, but how well! It is the well-doing that meets with a well-done. Let us therefore serve God, not nominally or verbally, but adverbially.
Ralph Venning
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Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.
Micky Dolenz
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Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
Eric Weiner
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Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It`s a real thing. It`s not always referring to ancient history.
Rachel Maddow
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I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson's endorsement, there's an Amen in every sentence he says too.
Joe Biden
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God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.
Marianne Williamson
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The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.
Bell Hooks
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To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
Gore Vidal
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The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
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To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb
Jimmy Carter
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The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
Fiona Shaw
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The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.
William Strunk, Jr.
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A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.
Yukiru Sugisaki
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Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing
with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring
with replacing the noun. It is doing that always
doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that.
Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and
pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is
what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no
matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a
great many kinds of poetry.
Gertrude Stein
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Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.
Veronica Roth
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Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
John Dryden
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But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
Bell Hooks
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The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.
Cathy Davidson
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Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective
Rob Bell
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Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
William S. Burroughs
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
Janis Joplin
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"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
Gore Vidal
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Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
William Safire