Foreign Language Quotes - Page 5

• I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in a foreign language, but certainly more socially and politically engaged films, or films that will happen where the story takes place outside the United States.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Optimistic, United States, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

  Sally Phillips

  Insecure, Dvds, Language

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• When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, School, Sight

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• Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Fatherhood, Helping

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• In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  People, United States, Language

  Source: collider.com

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• Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

  Philip-Lorca diCorcia

  Photography, Thinking, Language

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• After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

  Paul Nurse

  Weakness, Degrees, Interviews

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• As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  President, Population, Employment

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• I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in German. I did that deliberately. I'm like a ghost. Look at how much media and advertising you're subjected to, this mindless chatter of advertising. I just block it out so effortlessly because it's all a foreign language to me. It's really a good thing for my head, living in Berlin.

  Anton Newcombe

  Country, Block, Media

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Cereal, Tv Shows

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

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• To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live an interesting life outside of writing.

  Lydia Davis

  Writing, Past, Interesting

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• Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Writing, Creative, United States

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• Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words in perfect syntax. There is no place for verbosity or carelessness. To become fluent in a computer lnaguage demands almost the antithesis of modern loose thinking. It requires many interactive sessions, the hands-on use of the device. You do not learn a foreign language from a book, rather you have to live in the country for year to let the langauge become an automatic part of you, and the same is true for computer languages.

  James Lovelock

  Country, Book, Writing

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• I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.

  Robert Fulghum

  Time, Years, Watches

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.184, Ballantine Books

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• I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Book, Heart, Trying

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Four (July 16, 1903), 1929.

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• ...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all religions - not only to reach God but to reach each other.

  Huston Smith

  God, Yoga, Perspective

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.82, Univ of California Press

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• Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English and then teaching you how to understand double talk-a politician's double talk-not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and German, when am I going to Germany? I can't even afford to pay my rent in America, how am I going to Germany?

  Tupac Shakur

  Teaching, Thinking, America

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• The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Soul, Lasts, Language

  Yehuda Amichai (2006). “Open Closed Open: Poems”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Children, Lying, Childhood

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• Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

  Langston Hughes

  Daddy, Singing, Trying

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.75, University of Missouri Press

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• I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

  Alan Furst

  Book, Europe, People

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• Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

  Assia Djebar

  Writing, Youth, Language

  Assia Djebar (1993). “Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

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• My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.

  Lawrence Klein

  School, Training, Language

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• French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Language

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• When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.

  Nick Offerman

  Italian, Years, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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