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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.


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I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you've studied, how do you say 'doorknob'?
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Jacques Derrida
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There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.


Paul Watson
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.
Philip Levine
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Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.


Carlos Ghosn
The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.
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As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.


Shigeru Miyamoto
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
Hideki Tojo
My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films.
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It's a very strange and quite terrifying experience to watch yourself on TV. I never like to do it with other people.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.


Kat Graham
I have met some very strange people and some very strange cats - and I'm not talking about jazz greats. I'm talking about animals that people claim have come from outer space, and boy, they're weird!
Robin Leach
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Douglas Coupland
I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.
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