nice word
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.
[An article about Cho] started out, "Funny, sexy, zaftig Margaret Cho..." What is "zaftig?" Isn't that German for "big fat pig?" I guess I was lucky- "zaftig" is kind of a nice word. It could have been, "Funny, sexy, OBESE Margaret Cho."
A few of the project's participants can be, not to put a nice word on it, pretty nasty. And this is tolerated.
You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.
Given a chance, most children will do the right thing. I was hoping to make them aware that sometimes all it takes is a nice word to really make someone else's day. Consequently, a thoughtless remark can really hurt someone's feelings.
Unhappy is a nice word.