If I start insulting you in another language, you feel nothing; the words don’t mean anything to you. Because it’s you who puts their meaning into them. Me, I know what they mean, but it doesn’t matter how hard I scream them at you: you may start laughing!
Take the words; take away their value; and drop them to the floor. If you take that away, they fall to the ground, they never get to touch you; they are nothing.
SALMA HAYEK
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