Foreigners Quotes - Page 2

• The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us.

  John Dos Passos

  Running, Country, Ghetto

  John Dos Passos (2003). “Manhattan Transfer: A Novel”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Want, France

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• I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Im Sorry, Humor

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

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• New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, New York, Exercise

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• The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.

  Saadi

  No Friends, Stranger

  "Gulistan". Book by Saadi Shirazi (translated by James Ross), ch. 3, story 28, 1258.

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• Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

  Martin Feldstein

  Combination, Payment, Interest

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• Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

  Howard Stringer

  Running, Ideas, Sony

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• In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

  Roman Polanski

  Paris, Car, Matter

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

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• Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, America, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, Speak English, Speak

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.4.

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• Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

  Alan Greenspan

  Jobs, Philosophy, Political

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• A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

  Edward Sapir

  Simplicity, Analysis, Helping

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.280, Walter de Gruyter

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• There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Children, Arrogance, Immigration

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.262, Transaction Publishers

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• It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Numbers, America, People

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• I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Thinking, Iraq, Want

  Paul Wolfowitz's remarks at the press conference in Mosul, Iraq, July 21, 2003.

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• I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

  John Hanning Speke

  Trust, Sorry, Trying

  John Hanning Speke (2015). “Source of the Nile”, p.11, Amberley Publishing Limited

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• I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

  Michael Caine

  America, Film, Knows

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• Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

  Bianca Jagger

  Hippie, Liberty, Needs

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• Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

  Joseph Hume

  People, Giving, Unemployed

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• Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

  Bill Vaughan

  Bloody

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• All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.

  George Orwell

  Race, Racism, People

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Snakes, Circles, Overcoming

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.

  Noel Coward

  Dog, Mad, Twelve

  'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' (1931 song)

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• If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

  Willy Brandt

  Understanding, Germany, Demand

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• When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner's eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there's the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice.

  JR

  Eye, Journey, Cities

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