Speak English Quotes - Page 2

• Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent.

  Shintaro Ishihara

  Mean, Intelligent, People

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• In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton’s songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!

  Tom Paxton

  Song, School, Small Villages

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• You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Humor, Kids

  "President Bush Addresses Taxes, Social Security in Independence, Missouri". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. August 21, 2001.

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• You may be right in believing that if you study hard, one day you might become fluent in English. But you will still look Chinese, and when people meet you, they’ll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English. You’ll always be expected to know Chinese, and if you don’t, I’m afraid they will not respect you as much.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Girl, Believe, People

  Adeline Yen Mah (2009). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, p.151, Laurel Leaf

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• MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were.” “Telly?” Who was that? He grunted in amusement. “Television, of course. Don’t you speak English?” “You sure don’t,” I muttered. Shaking his head, he frowned at me.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mtv, Games, Humanity

  Jeaniene Frost (2009). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.

  Rachel Caine

  Play, Generations, Amelie

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.34, Penguin

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• In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, America, Use

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• This made no sense to me, probably because I speak English and have never had a head injury.

  Tina Fey

  Injury, Head Injuries, Made

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• I'm sorry, I don't speak English.

  Francesco Totti

  Sorry, Speak, I'm Sorry

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• Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

  Christopher Walken

  Firsts, Language, Said

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• I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

  Pharrell Williams

  Team, Ideas, Design

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Hair

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.257, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Ignorance, Hair, Careers

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• If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Intelligent

  Wilfrid Sheed (1990). “Essays in Disguise”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Men, Language

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Children, Males, Female

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.411, A&C Black

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• We all need to stomp out balkanization. No Spanish radio stations, no Spanish billboards, no Spanish TV stations, no Spanish newspapers. This is America, speak English.

  John Huppenthal

  America, Needs, Radio

  "Arizona Superintendent Apologizes For Racist Posts As Calls For His Resignation Grow", www.foxnews.com. June 26, 2014.

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• My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that - by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try.

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, War, Stupid

  "This much I know" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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• People like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English.

  Avril Lavigne

  People, Records, Contracts

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• I‘ve said it once and I will say it again, why can‘t everyone just speak English? The Americans give it a bit of a go — why can‘t other nations?

  Louise Rennison

  Giving, Said, Nations

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• the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can’t read maps.

  Robin McKinley

  Running, Maps, Inbreds

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• Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. "Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas-

  Rick Riordan

  Speak, Stunned

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• The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

  Lauren Willig

  Nuisance, Language, Fortune

  Lauren Willig (2015). “The Lure of the Moonflower: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.259, Penguin

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• I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

  Anna Held

  Cute, Tongue, Speak

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• If somebody's going to earn citizenship, with whatever other hurdles are put in the way, at the end of the road they should be able to speak English, they should be able to read English, they should have some knowledge of American history.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Should Have, Able, Way

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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