Foreign Language Quotes - Page 4

• I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

  Michio Kaku

  Class, Effort, Graduates

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• I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Fun, Acting, Different

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• My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

  Arabella Weir

  Children, Real, Coffee

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• Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is ‘grabbing a burger at the Hard Rock’ supposed to mean? (Julian) The Hard Rock Café is a restaurant. (Grace) You eat at a place that advertises its food is hard as a rock? (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Rocks, Grace

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• My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

  Deb Caletti

  Language, Speak, Subconscious

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Couple, Kids, Air

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• Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

  Tim Ferriss

  Sports, Language, Excellent

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• Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Dark, Night, Giving

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• Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Language, Modern

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• I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

  Rex Stout

  Book, Stories, Letters

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I." by Sandra Schmidt in Life magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.

  David McCullough

  Teacher, Children, Real

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

  Havelock Ellis

  Feelings, World, Becoming

  Havelock Ellis (1912). “The Task of Social Hygiene”

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• Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.

  Vallabhbhai Patel

  Independent, Leader, India

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• The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

  Deniz Gamze Erguven

  Country, Directors, Oscars

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in a foreign language that they can't understand. If they want, you can translate it to them. But it is their choice. In general, though, I think Israelis don't want to know. Very few do. Basically, I write to the converted.

  Amira Hass

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

  Philip-Lorca diCorcia

  Photography, Thinking, Language

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• In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  People, United States, Language

  Source: collider.com

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• Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Fatherhood, Helping

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• When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, School, Sight

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• Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

  Sally Phillips

  Insecure, Dvds, Language

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• I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in a foreign language, but certainly more socially and politically engaged films, or films that will happen where the story takes place outside the United States.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Optimistic, United States, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• If you look at the Oscars and look at the Best Foreign Language series, you see that the films are coming from everywhere - from Quebec, Israel, Poland, and Belgium. It's not the usual French, German, etc. This category is opening up to socially engaged and political films. I think we're going to see a cross over to the main categories also. It's part of this global environment now and I'm grateful that the Academy is having this window on world cinema.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Grateful, Thinking, Israel

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Thinking, Special, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was about 17, I didn't speak. English was like a foreign language. I'd just grunt. The only time I talked was when I said my lines on set. I didn't speak to any of the actors or anything. Then one day Alison from the Corrie press office started talking to me in the green room and I just decided to talk back. She ran upstairs to tell everyone that she'd just had a 10-minute conversation with me like it was the most unbelievable thing in the world. I just woke up one day and thought, 'I'm going to talk today'. I've really made up for lost time since.

  Jack P. Shepherd

  Talking, Speak English, Office

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Latin, America, Tragedy

  Source: deadline.com

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