Different Languages Quotes - Page 3

• The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Character, Voice, Different

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• I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

  Tony Scott

  People, Different, Information

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• We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another country, because they speak a different language, or because they take a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human. . . . Let us have but one end in view: the welfare of humanity.

  John Amos Comenius

  Country, Hate, Views

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• The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

  Leslie Jamison

  Reading, Editors, People

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• I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Different, Language, Advantage

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

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• One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!

  June Jordan

  Views, Color, Different

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• life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages.

  Frank O'Hara

  Beautiful, Lying, Different

  Frank O'Hara (2005). “In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems”, p.81, The Museum of Modern Art

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• I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Aquariums, People

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.114, Egmont UK

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• I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!

  Michael Morpurgo

  Crazy, War, Fighting

  Michael Morpurgo (2012). “War Horse”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.

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• The hardest thing is being with other people — it's like they're on a different wavelength, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what's wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just let them go. It's a whole different language, and you've got to remember that you can only respond in their mother tongue. It's really hard to relate.

  J.R. Ward

  Mother, People, Different

  "Lover at Last: Number 11 in series".

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• They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Twilight, Talking, Two

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.340, Hamilton Books

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• I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

  Bono

  Christian, Thinking, Fire

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• When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

  Antonio Banderas

  Different, Language

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• There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a masculine society, and it contains many male prejudices. We must rid language of all that. Still, a language is not something created artificially; the proletariat can't use a different language from the bourgeoisie, even if they use it differently, even if from time to time they invent something, technical words or even a kind of worker's slang, which can be very beautiful and very rich. Women can do that as well, enrich their language, clean it up.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Beautiful, Writing, Style

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages in France and Italy, and they're all called French [and Italian], but they were not mutually comprehensible. They were different languages. And they have mostly disappeared in the last century or so. Some are being preserved, like Welsh, some are being revived, like Basque or Catelan to some extent. There are plenty of people in Europe who can't talk to their grandmother because they talk a different language.

  Noam Chomsky

  Grandmother, Italian, Europe

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different "language" with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation - like they say, the past is a foreign country - but I think this is intensified for children whose parents also grew up in a geographically foreign country.

  Elif Batuman

  Country, Children, Past

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar in Brooklyn in a film you know exactly who is the mobster, who is the nice guy, who is the drunk, who's the waitress, who's the lonely heart. If you push open the door to a bar in Antwerp or Lisbon or Rotterdam, people will talk five different languages. You don't know who's who. You don't know if that guy is a banker or a mobster.

  Thomas Bidegain

  Lonely, Nice, Heart

  "Thomas Bidegain’s Solo Song" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2016.

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• "We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Usual, Doe, Different

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “The Master and Margarita”, p.191, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources.

  John Denver

  Hate, Thinking, Color

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• After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

  Josh Groban

  Perfect, Singing, Trying

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• I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.

  Miriam Toews

  Sadness, Home, Thinking

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Home, Science, Past

  Thomas S. Kuhn (1987). “Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912”, p.364, University of Chicago Press

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• Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  Robert Menzies

  Art, Intelligent, People

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• So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're talking about these scriptures that say we ought to come together, and that at Pentecost, when that the Holy Spirit is said to have come upon the first Christians, they were given the ability to speak in different languages, and so that no matter who the people were, they could all worship together.

  Michael Emerson

  Christian, Stress, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.

  Wyclef Jean

  Rap, Thinking, People

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