Language Barriers Quotes

• There are no language barriers when you are smiling.

  Allen Klein

  Language, Barriers

  Allen Klein (1989). “The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff”, Tarcher

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• There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

  Connie Sellecca

  Kids, Play, Language

  "John Tesh and Family Comfort Sri Lankan Victims". "The 700 Club" with Gordon Robertson, www.cbn.com. January 14, 2005.

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• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013

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• Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

  Tommy Chong

  Musician, World, Audience

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• Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

  Julie Delpy

  Differences, Confusion, Add

  "Julie Delpy Talks 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, Casting Chris Rock, Her Writing Process, Her Comedic Influences and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

  John Seagall

  People, Feel Good, Culture

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

  Kurt Cobain

  Sad, Nature, Morning

  "Journals". Book by Kurt Cobain, November 2002.

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• Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.

  Avery Sunshine

  Thinking, Talking, Cricket

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language
  barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

  Samuel Chamberlain

  Art, Food, People

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• I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

  Curtis Jackson

  Song, People, Tokyo

  Source: www.billboard.com

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the world - I mean like it actually transcends language barriers - you see how it can affect people, and it's quite a tall order to follow up on.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same.

  Kim Jee-woon

  Challenges, Around The World, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.

  George W. Bush

  Vets, Population, Different

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.

  Norval Morrisseau

  Art, Native American, Greatness

  Norval Morrisseau (2005). “Norval Morrisseau: Return to the House of Invention”

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• Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us. May the Games be held in peace, in the true spirit of the Olympic Truce. Athletes of the 80 national Olympic committees, show us that sport unites by overcoming national, political, religious and language barriers. You can show us a world we all long for.

  Jacques Rogge

  Sports, Religious, Athlete

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• Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

  Simon Le Bon

  Generations, Music Is, Communicate

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• I met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's what I love, the music has gone past where I thought it would get to. That's the power of music, how it can travel and break language barriers.

  Prince Royce

  Song, Past, People

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• What happened? Did a house fall on your sister?" I asked. Maybe there was a benefit to our language barrier. She pursed her lips. "You can't stay here much longer," she said. My mouth dropped open. "You...you speak English?" She snorted. "Of course.

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Speak English, House

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.128, Penguin

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