23 English-Speaking Quotes for You to Enjoy

Do we want a multicultural society, following the model of the English-speaking world, where fundamental Islam is progressing and we see major religious claims, or do we want an independent nation, with people able to control their own destiny, or do we accept to be a region managed by the technocrats of the European Union? Marine Le Pen

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A lot of Latinos are like me: third generation, English speaking. Al Madrigal

Me Generation Latinos Like Lot Speaking English English-Speaking Third

Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title. Austin Clarke

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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia. Ian Frazier

Saw Way Only Person Across English-Speaking Siberia

In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke. Iggy Pop

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I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable. Javier Bardem

Myself Feeling Energy See Instead Putting Freely Look Himself Comfortable Audience Understood Lot Person Trying Spanish English-Speaking Expressing

If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes. Jocelyn Bell Burnell

London is the English-speaking theatre capital. John Cameron Mitchell

Theatre London Capital English-Speaking

Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and that Lloyd George had capitulated to the vengeful French. Margaret MacMillan

World Unjust Had Particular Vengeful French Reparations Came George Were Versailles Germans Many Agree English-Speaking Treaty

For good or ill, communism transformed the globe, but how many of us realise the crucial role played by a Manchester public library - Chethams, the oldest library in the English-speaking world - in the honing of that ideology? Michael Portillo

If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans. Neill Blomkamp

You World Rest White Think Brits Exactly Exactly The Same New South Australians Canadians American Same Just African English-Speaking Compare

A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond. Robert Jenkins

I grew up in so much church: English-speaking church, Korean church. Sandra Oh

Church Korean Up Grew Much English-Speaking

I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs. Sonya Walger

Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows it down to three places: Los Angeles, New York and London. I like New York, but it's inferior to London as a production center. Hollywood is best, but I don't like living there. Stanley Kubrick

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I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake. Subhash Chandra

Mistake People Programmes Take Hindi Decisions English-Speaking Chose

When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home. Wadah Khanfar

Time Home News Organization Fly Will Few Crew Analyst Spend Somalia Some Days Most Go Go Home Covers Yemen Officials Interact Wherever Story International File Sudan English-Speaking Elite

Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world? Will Self

World Writer Want Modernist English-Speaking

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks. P. J. O'Rourke

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