English Speaking Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

  Jim Goad

  Hate, Government, Law

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Whether I go to English-speaking countries or non-English-speaking countries I can just modulate to what works for them.

  Reggie Watts

  Country, I Can

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas Jefferson, who was then-ambassador to France. And Jefferson said - I am paraphrasing - `Do not forget to keep habeas corpus and strengthen it.' That - in - that's the oldest English-speaking right. It goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215.

  Nat Hentoff

  Writing, Letters, Ambassadors

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• You want a leader, Western leader, English-speaking? Mitt Romney.

  Mark Shields

  Leader, Want, Western

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, and the U. S.

  Robert Hass

  Scotland, Canada, England

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, People, Leader

  Source: www.mott.org

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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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• 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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• In some countries, of course, Spanish is the language spoken in public. But for many American children whose families speak Spanish at home, it becomes a private language. They use it to keep the English-speaking world at bay.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Country, Children, Home

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.

  Bob Hayes

  Country, Jobs, Moving

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• I come from the state of Michigan. We were the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw the death penalty, back in the 1840s. We have never had, as a state, the death penalty in Michigan. I was raised with that, and even Republicans in Michigan, nobody would even think of putting a measure on the ballot to have the death penalty.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Government, Firsts

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• I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Years, Names

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• An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

  Edith Wharton

  Music, Artist, Italian

  The Age of Innocence ch. 1 (1920)

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• I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs.

  Sonya Walger

  Thinking, Availability, People

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• I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

  Hani Furstenberg

  World, Actresses, Israeli

  "FUTURES: 'The Loneliest Planet' Star Hani Furstenberg Movies Beyond the Israeli Stage". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2012.

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• We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.

  Jared Diamond

  War, Musical, Majority

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• Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Doors, Sky

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1963). “Angles and Britons”, Cardiff, University of Wales Press

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• The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

  George Orwell

  Past, Race, Years

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

  Audrey Tautou

  Scripts, Not Interested

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• I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

  Audrey Tautou

  Important, Directors, Scripts

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• I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

  Erik Estrada

  New York, Environment, Grew Up

  "‘Chips’ Star Erik Estrada Preps For Dance Competition, Takes Our Pop Quiz". Interview With Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2011.

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