English Quotes
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I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
Sean Connery
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If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.
Nelson DeMille
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I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.
John Krasinski
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I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.
Ashwin Sanghi
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Many Arabic/Islamic words have now entered the English dictionary, such as haj, hijab, Eid, etc., and I no longer need to put them in italics or explain them.
Leila Aboulela
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English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.
James Anthony Froude
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Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America.
Kelly Osbourne
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Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.
Jeb Bush
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My style has a lot to do with where I've been brought up. I've lived half my life in Puerto Rico and the other half in Florida, so I listen to music in English as well as Spanish.
Luis Fonsi
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My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.
Pramila Jayapal
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In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.
Alistair Horne
