English Speaking Quotes

• I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

  Javier Bardem

  Feelings, Trying, Energy

  "'Why am I doing this absurd job?'". Interview with Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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• I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

  Luke Ford

  Christian, People, World

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• Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

  William Bennett

  Children, Political, Tasks

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

  Peg Bracken

  Country, Travel, Speak English

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

  Winston Churchill

  Torches, Nations

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• I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.

  Gavin McInnes

  White, Borders, Needs

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• Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

  Padgett Powell

  Alcohol, Ends, Cholesterol

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• These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.

  Winston Churchill

  Views, Land, Two

  Churchill's "The Few" Speech, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 1940.

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• The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

  Mark Steyn

  Party, Unseen, Degrees

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it!

  Sean Hannity

  Party, Slave, Unusual

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have no f**king idea who I am. I'd do what I consider the best of those old, early CDs before I did DVDs. A women's prison would be even better, but it has to be English-speaking.

  Doug Stanhope

  Kings, Cds, Ideas

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• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  Ian Frazier

  Way, Saws, Siberia

  "Dispatch From Siberia: The Ian Frazier Interview". Interview with David Coggins, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2010.

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• Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Self, Action

  Willa Cather (2014). “A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Freedom, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

  Tilda Swinton

  Children, Book, World

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.

  Bernard Bailyn

  War, Ideas, Political

  "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, 1967.

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• Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Country, Army, Mind

  Bernard Bailyn (2017). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.

  Thomas Szasz

  Country, Connections, Use

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.165, Syracuse University Press

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• We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mistake, Thinking, India

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.152, Oxford University Press

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• In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, World, Problem

  Speech to Scottish Tories, 1999.

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• We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

  Richard O'Brien

  America, Australia, Shapes

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• Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

  Russell Baker

  Attitude, Speak English, Long

  Russell Baker (1990). “There's a country in my cellar”, William Morrow & Company

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• The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is the only one that has survived to the 21st century!

  Sean Hannity

  Powerful, Party, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in Pakistan, dealing with Urdu and Punjabi dialogue with an English-speaking editor and all the difficulties in recording, editing and clearing so many music tracks.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Unique, Editing, Editors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When people stop some film from being shot or burn a book, it's not just that they are saying, this is against Indian culture. They are also saying, you Westernized, elite, English-speaking people are having too much of a good time. It's a very interesting phenomenon.

  Arundhati Roy

  Book, People, Interesting

  Source: progressive.org

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