English Quotes
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Maybe in Latvian one day I'll rap a little bit, but definitely not in English.
Kristaps Porzingis
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I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.
Christopher Castellani
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There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.
E. B. White
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The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.
George Mikes
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We must insist on assimilation - immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here, they need to come here legally. They need to learn English, adopt our values, roll up their sleeves and get to work.
Bobby Jindal
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My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.
Owen Wilson
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My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
Arizona Muse
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When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.
Laurie Colwin
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She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.
Regina Doman
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English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
Vaclav Havel
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The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and set some value on it, but the very idea of equality is strange and offensive to them. They do not dislike to have many people above them as long as they have some below them.
John Stuart Mill
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Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.
Matthew McGrory
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O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters.
Frank McCourt
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I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.
Andre Aciman
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Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
Ludwig Quidde
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I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
Pharrell Williams
N.E.R.D.
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If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
John Keegan
