Speak English Quotes - Page 4

• I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

  Bill Cosby

  Doctors, People, Important

  Address at the NAACP' on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, delivered 17 May 2004, Constitution Hall, Washington D.C.

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• Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people used to define that. Is black your experience or the color of your skin? My experience is as a Mexican immigrant, more so than someone like George Lopez. He's from California. But he'll be treated as an immigrant. I am an outsider. My abuelita, my grandmother, didn't speak English. My whole family on my dad's side is in Mexico. I won't ever be called that or treated that way, but it was my experience.

  Louis C. K.

  Dad, Mean, Grandmother

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

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• I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

  Christopher Walken

  Broken, People, Listening

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• If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Country, Eight, Appreciate

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• I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

  Salma Hayek

  Passion, United States, Cards

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September, 2003.

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• Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.

  Theresa May

  People, Migrants, Able

  "Theresa May statement on deportation and human rights: Politics live blog" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2012.

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• I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

  Eva Mendes

  World, Accents, Speak

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

  Sean Connery

  Golf, Speaks French, Wife

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• In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Country, Motivation, Differences

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 31 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind the tape. John claims that here he told the guards that he could not speak English and when that failed to persuade them, he fa...ked a violent seizure. I am unclear as to the purpose of this part of his plan. John flung himself down and began rolling around in the snow, thrashing his limbs about and screaming “EL SEIZURE!!! NO ES BUENO!!!” in a Mexican accent.

  David Wong

  Elderly, Security Guards, Two

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.408, Titan Books

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• My brother had a mustache, and when my brother had a mustache, it was cool. When I had a mustache, everyone just assumed I'm an immigrant and I don't speak English, which is fascinating. It was a fascinating thing to discover how I looked versus my brother with a mustache.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Brother, Mustache, Versus

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My family immigrated from Korea when I was four years old, and when I started school, I didn't speak English. I remember that other kids would blame everything bad that happened in kindergarten on me - I spent a lot of time "in the corner" because I literally didn't have the words to explain that it wasn't me!

  Jane Park

  School, Kids, Korea

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was wondering, do we get the best of Swedish music or just the best of Swedish music that speaks English? Sweden has a population of nine million. And with all these acts coming out it just seems like very ripe for musical success. I don't know how they do it.

  Mike Pesca

  Musical, Population, Sweden

  "Madonna, Santogold Make Dance Records". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 29, 2008.

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• A lot of people don't know enough about me. When I meet people who freak out about Game of Thrones, they don't even know that I can speak English.

  Jason Momoa

  Games, People, Thrones

  Source: collider.com

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• When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Class, Way, Irritating

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

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• When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.

  Kola Boof

  Silent Films, Abel, Directors

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have a "World Championship", we invite teams from other nations. Three, when you meet the British head of State, you only have to get down on one knee.

  John Cleese

  Team, Two, Differences

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• Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

  Kola Boof

  Parent, Mind, Black

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Beneath the surface level of conditioned thinking in every one of us there is a single living spirit. The still small voice whispering to me in the depths of my consciousness is saying exactly the same thing as the voice whispering to you in your consciousness. 'I want an earth that is healthy, a world at peace, and a heart filled with love.' It doesn't matter if your skin is brown or white or black, or whether you speak English, Japanese, or Malayalam - the voice, says the Gita, is the same in every creature, and it comes from your true self.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  Eknath Easwaran “The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment”, Nilgiri Press

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• A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Country, Japan, Shy

  Source: collider.com

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• But still it's like I said, when you hop in a cab in Italy and the guy doesn't speak English, uhh, you know, you have to start pointin' at things. You learn how to deal with it. What I'm tryin' to say is that it's not as convenient as touring in the states or say somewhere like Australia or even England where they speak the same language fluently.

  Vinnie Paul

  Australia, Guy, England

  "Pantera Interview" by Spence D., www.ign.com. December 13, 2004.

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• One of the conventions that I always liked was Doctor Zhivago, where everything that's written on the screen is in Russian but everyone speaks English. That seemed to me to be quite a good convention to follow.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Doctors, Conventions, Doctor Zhivago

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• President Bush appeared with Arnold Schwarzenegger at a huge campaign event. Only in California can a governor who speaks German and a president who can barely speak English try to make themselves clear to an audience that's primarily Spanish.

  Jay Leno

  California, Trying, President

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• People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.

  David Gilmour

  People, Singing, Wish

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

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• I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.

  Paul Reiser

  Kids, Night, Ideas

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