Edward R. Murrow Quotes
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.
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I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
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I learned English from watching American movies and American series. And you'd watch the movie the first time and not understand anything. Then you'd watch it again, and you'd start understanding more and more, and that's how I learned English.
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I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to be president, anyway. ... I think it is maybe time - what do you think - for maybe a businessman. How about that? A stellar businessman.
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I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
