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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
Lady Gregory
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Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.
Pankaj Mishra
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But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.
James Merrill
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I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.
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I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.
Robert Downey, Jr.
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I feel that I speak the musical language.


Marsha Norman
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.


Ben Jonson
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Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions.
James Heckman
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Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.


Jim Harrison
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I like the dynamic of PBS. They're very honest and authentic.


Eric Ripert
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I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.


Alan Siegel
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.
Charles Kennedy
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Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.


Richard Pound
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In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.
Rory Stewart
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
Charles Baudelaire
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.


Napoleon Bonaparte
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