1599 Language Quotes for You to Enjoy

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it. Christopher Lee

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Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language. Christopher Walken

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I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college. Chrystia Freeland

Myself History Speak Language College Nation Think Studied Literature

I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments. Clara Shih

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One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media. Clay Shirky

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We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action. Clayton M. Christensen

The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who are suffering as a victim to be pitied, to be feared, and even sometimes to be despised. I want to redirect that narrative. Clemantine Wamariya

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I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work. Conor McPherson

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original. Conor Oberst

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