Different Languages Quotes

• I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Country, People, Different

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• We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

  Kofi Annan

  Acceptance, Race, Skin Color

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2016

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• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  Flora Lewis

  Learning, Thinking, German Language

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• If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Communication, Different, World

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• A different language is a different vision of life.

  Federico Fellini

  Life, Work, Communication

  Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

  Fred Frith

  Song, Play, Different

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• Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

  David Bezmozgis

  People, Personality, Different

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wall

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• My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships. Because these languages share an overlapping moral vocabulary, they contain a propensity for systematic mistranslation.

  Carol Gilligan

  Men, Vocabulary, Self

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.131, Harvard University Press

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• When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

  Chath Piersath

  Reading, Different, Language

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Different languages cut the world into different slices.

  Jean Berko Gleason

  Cutting, Different, World

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• In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Music, People, Different

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• If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

  Michael Lewis

  Different, Needs, Dozen

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• Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Intelligent, People

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• Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

  Hélder Câmara

  Men, Diversity, Trying

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• Each actor requires a different language.

  Oliver Stone

  Different, Actors, Language

  "Interview: Oliver & Sean Stone (Alexander Revisited)". Interview With Jeremy Smith, trouble.city. September 19, 2007.

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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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• One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Voice, People, Trying

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• Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, People, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (1861). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.296

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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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• The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole number of mini states and big states into one unit. But those people were always there, and they always managed to live side by side with their neighbours. So they were not owned or run by one kingdom. It was not practically impossible for these people when they have different languages and religions to be neighbors. So it is that habit of neighbourliness which is destroyed and put under great strain again and again when you have things like massacres.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Talking, Numbers

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I lived, it wasn't embarrassing to have Deaf parents; it was cool to be able to speak a different language than everyone else.

  Jack Jason

  Phones, Parent, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same One Truth - but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vitalbreath of his life, man compromises by making over and over againa mechanical religion of it - a handy staff to lean on in times of adversity, a soothing balm for his conscience or a tradition to be followed.

  Meher Baba

  Adversity, Men, Different

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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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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• That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.

  Rachel Cohn

  Sports, Moving, Games

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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