English Speaking Quotes

• I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

  Javier Bardem

  Feelings, Trying, Energy

  "'Why am I doing this absurd job?'". Interview with Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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• I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

  Luke Ford

  Christian, People, World

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• Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

  William Bennett

  Children, Political, Tasks

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

  Peg Bracken

  Country, Travel, Speak English

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

  Winston Churchill

  Torches, Nations

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• I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.

  Gavin McInnes

  White, Borders, Needs

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• Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

  Padgett Powell

  Alcohol, Ends, Cholesterol

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• These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.

  Winston Churchill

  Views, Land, Two

  Churchill's "The Few" Speech, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 1940.

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• We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

  Richard O'Brien

  America, Australia, Shapes

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• I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

  Tilda Swinton

  Children, Book, World

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

  Mark Steyn

  Party, Unseen, Degrees

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it!

  Sean Hannity

  Party, Slave, Unusual

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mistake, Thinking, India

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.152, Oxford University Press

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• The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Freedom, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Self, Action

  Willa Cather (2014). “A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have no f**king idea who I am. I'd do what I consider the best of those old, early CDs before I did DVDs. A women's prison would be even better, but it has to be English-speaking.

  Doug Stanhope

  Kings, Cds, Ideas

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• There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in Pakistan, dealing with Urdu and Punjabi dialogue with an English-speaking editor and all the difficulties in recording, editing and clearing so many music tracks.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Unique, Editing, Editors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's a beautiful city, and the waterfront area is fantastic. I haven't had time to visit the theatre, but I find it remarkable that Toronto has the third-largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, after New York and London. I once noticed a fellow sitting on a bench, then I realized it was a statue of Glenn Gould. It's very realistic.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

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• James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking in Gaelic. I've sung songs that if they were in English, would have been banned too. The psyche of the Irish language is completely different to the English-speaking world.

  Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

  Song, Thinking, Different

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• When people stop some film from being shot or burn a book, it's not just that they are saying, this is against Indian culture. They are also saying, you Westernized, elite, English-speaking people are having too much of a good time. It's a very interesting phenomenon.

  Arundhati Roy

  Book, People, Interesting

  Source: progressive.org

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• There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, People, Leader

  Source: www.mott.org

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• When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas Jefferson, who was then-ambassador to France. And Jefferson said - I am paraphrasing - `Do not forget to keep habeas corpus and strengthen it.' That - in - that's the oldest English-speaking right. It goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215.

  Nat Hentoff

  Writing, Letters, Ambassadors

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, and the U. S.

  Robert Hass

  Scotland, Canada, England

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You want a leader, Western leader, English-speaking? Mitt Romney.

  Mark Shields

  Leader, Want, Western

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Whether I go to English-speaking countries or non-English-speaking countries I can just modulate to what works for them.

  Reggie Watts

  Country, I Can

  Source: www.avclub.com

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