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• Le daré mi definición de nación, y usted puede añadir el adjetivo "judía". Una nación es, en mi opinión, un grupo histórico de hombres de una cohesión reconocible que se mantienen unidos por un enemigo común. Entonces, si a eso le añades la palabra 'judío' tienes lo que yo entiendo que es la nación judía.

  Theodor Herzl

  Men, Giving, Historical

  Theodor Herzl (2014). "The Jewish State: with 2014 Foreword by Jerold S. Auerbach", p.46, Quid Pro Books.

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• Comentar, ilustrar, describir, adjetivar, analizar, conjeturar, buscar mitos musicales, gente del universo, esto es tuyo.

  T La Rock

  Rap, People, Giving

  "Rick Rubin, Russell Simmons: Def Jam's First 25 Years". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. October 9, 2011.

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• First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Cutting, Firsts

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• There's always an adjective before my name, and it's never a nice one.

  Joan Rivers

  Nice, Names

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• For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

  Hal Borland

  Autumn, Sea, Purple

  Hal Borland (1965). “Countryman: A Summary of Belief”

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• Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity. You know, gay Rosie O'Donnell.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Gay, Names, Want

  "Rosie O'Donnell: Being a Gay Mom". abcnews.go.com. March 14.

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• I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Long, People, Trying

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• And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

  Melina Marchetta

  Buttons, Nouns, Want

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• To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Mean, Together

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• The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Powerful, Light, Rocks

  "Sobre los cuentos de hadas". Conferencia de Andrew Lang en la Universidad de St. Andrews el 8 de marzo de 1939. "Ensayos presentados a Charles Williams", 1947.

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• Clothing sizes are weird, they go: small, medium, large and then extra large, extra extra large, extra extra extra large. Something happened at large, they just gave up. They were like, 'I'm not doing any more adjectives; you just keep putting extras on there.' We could do better than that: small, medium, large, whoa, easy, slow down, stop it, interesting, American.

  Demetri Martin

  Interesting, Size, Easy

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• When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

  Mark Twain

  Consejos

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• Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Unity, Nouns

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). "LILA An Inquriry into Morals" (LILA: una investigación sobre la moral)

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• Bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend sends you reeling in a search for new adjectives to describe stupidity and thoughtlessness?

  Dov Davidoff

  Girlfriend, Stupidity, Thoughtlessness

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 14, 2012

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• I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is the adjective and adverb. The newspicture is a single frame; ours, a subject viewed in series. The newspicture is dramatic, all subject and action. Ours shows what's back of the action.

  Roy Stryker

  Photography, Thinking, Adjectives And Adverbs

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• La ecología es un proceso, no un estatus. Tenemos que pensar en "verde" como un verbo, no como un adjetivo.

  Daniel Goleman

  Thinking, Needs, Verbs

  Daniel Goleman (2009). "Inteligencia ecológica: Cómo conocer los impactos ocultos de lo que compramos puede cambiarlo todo", p.28, Crown Business

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• I think it's important for you to understand that homosexuality is not a noun that describes a condition. It's an adjective that describes feelings or behavior.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Thinking, Feelings, Important

  Fuente: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't.

  Garry Kaspárov

  Hypocrisy, Democracy, Connections

  Fuente: www.rferl.org

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• Más fuerte juntos es, creo, una preposición y un adjetivo comparativo, pero no es realmente un verbo de acción o lo que es.

  Mark Shields

  Pensar, Juntos, Más Fuertes

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

  Gloria Steinem

  Powerful, Nouns, Language

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• The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as important as principles. Without principles, the language will fail.

  Frank Luntz

  Book, Passion, Persistence

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• The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.

  Gore Vidal

  Homosexual, Persons, Courses

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Gay, Ideas, Lasts

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

  William Zinsser

  Soil, Lagoons, Sleepy

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• Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."

  William Zinsser

  Space, Quiver, Critics

  William Knowlton Zinsser (1980). “On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, HarperCollins Publishers

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