Any time we invoke a holy book, or quote an inspiring teacher, or repeat an idiom, or say what we have been told to say, or told to believe, we are experiencing the regurgitation of thought.
But a more easily accessible Springsteen, removed from his soul roots, his childhood obsessions and the oft-repeated idiom of cars and highways, would have been diluted.
Mr Sarkozy said he was simply repeating the local idiom and was referring to criminal gangs.
Opinions are, with no need to repeat a vulgar idiom, commonplace.
As the class moved on to typical French idioms to practice pronunciation, Maki made the 30 students repeat one phrase several times: "Vouloir c'est pouvoir".
His idiom is full of clichéd, mechanical gestures, with repeated riffs and nagging melodies, but the music has no focus and no rigour.
It gave voice to the first half of the 20th century in snatches of song and idiom and history, abounding in the stories we love to hear, no matter how often they're repeated, of World War II, the blitz, the R.A.F.
Verbs are unconjugated, nouns are repeated to suggest the plural and words are sometimes assembled in a way that mimics the structure of classic Chinese idioms.
This situation was repeated with John George Wood, who on his visit to the area complained of the awkwardness of understanding the particular dialects and idioms used by the native speakers, which were on times difficult for other Welsh speakers to understand.
"Hand down, man down," he said, repeating a favorite Jackson broadcasting idiom at a news conference Monday to introduce the Warriors' rookies for next season.
Lucky enough to stay in her backyard while shooting friends and acquaintances, her work is a great example of the 'write what you know' idiom; familiar faces repeat and reveal a bit more of Tamara's love affair with natural light in every frame.
