Foreign Language Quotes - Page 5

• I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more.

  Robert Stone

  Reading, Writing, Literature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Baby, Brain

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• No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not use a foreign language and finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult.

  Vallabhbhai Patel

  Motivational, Independent, Justice

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• Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.

  Arthur Miller

  Country, Couple, Thinking

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• It's fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it's fun when the writers will come to you and say 'Hey, listen, we're working on this story and we need to know if you speak any foreign languages.' And I said 'No, I don't. I speak a little Spanish, but I can learn a foreign language.' And they go 'Okay, do you think you can learn Portuguese?' And I go 'Yeah, whatever it takes. If it's funny, I'll do it.' So of course I start looking online and learning Portuguese, and as it turns out, I get the script and it's now Serbian.

  David Alan Basche

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.

  Mary Norris

  Jobs, Singing, Gardening

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  President, Population, Employment

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• After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

  Paul Nurse

  Weakness, Degrees, Interviews

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• I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in German. I did that deliberately. I'm like a ghost. Look at how much media and advertising you're subjected to, this mindless chatter of advertising. I just block it out so effortlessly because it's all a foreign language to me. It's really a good thing for my head, living in Berlin.

  Anton Newcombe

  Country, Block, Media

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

  Langston Hughes

  Daddy, Singing, Trying

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.75, University of Missouri Press

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• A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Children, Lying, Childhood

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• The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Soul, Lasts, Language

  Yehuda Amichai (2006). “Open Closed Open: Poems”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all religions - not only to reach God but to reach each other.

  Huston Smith

  God, Yoga, Perspective

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.82, Univ of California Press

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• I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

  Alan Furst

  Book, Europe, People

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• Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing.

  Barbara Goldsmith

  Ideas, Astrology, Language

  Barbara Goldsmith (2008). “Astrology Made Easy: A Handy Reference Guide”, p.1, Barbara Goldsmith

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• I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do!

  John Travolta

  Holiday, Ideas, Tvs

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• Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English and then teaching you how to understand double talk-a politician's double talk-not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and German, when am I going to Germany? I can't even afford to pay my rent in America, how am I going to Germany?

  Tupac Shakur

  Teaching, Thinking, America

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• I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!

  Lil Wayne

  Language, Speak, Speak The Truth

  FaceBook post by Lil Wayne from Jun 15, 2012

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• Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

  Assia Djebar

  Writing, Youth, Language

  Assia Djebar (1993). “Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

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• My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.

  Lawrence Klein

  School, Training, Language

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• It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Cereal, Tv Shows

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

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• To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live an interesting life outside of writing.

  Lydia Davis

  Writing, Past, Interesting

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• Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words in perfect syntax. There is no place for verbosity or carelessness. To become fluent in a computer lnaguage demands almost the antithesis of modern loose thinking. It requires many interactive sessions, the hands-on use of the device. You do not learn a foreign language from a book, rather you have to live in the country for year to let the langauge become an automatic part of you, and the same is true for computer languages.

  James Lovelock

  Country, Book, Writing

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• I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.

  Robert Fulghum

  Time, Years, Watches

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.184, Ballantine Books

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• When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.

  Nick Offerman

  Italian, Years, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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