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We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.
Fred Frith
Music
You
Improvise
Melodic
Out
Kinds
Songs
Just
Different
Use
Languages
Play
Things
Shut
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
Garry Hynes
Time
Great
Long
Long Time
Energy
Think
Those
Fact
Writers
Shared
Between
Obviously
Been
Ireland
Very
Irish
Very Long Time
Being
As Far As
Far
Languages
Two
I would like to make a film in the four South Indian languages.
Gautham Menon
Would
Indian
Like
Make
South
Languages
Film
Four
He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated.
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
Travel
Father
Thought
Important
Fathers
Tell
Married
He
Like
Learn
Educated
Very
Greek
Get
Get Married
Us
Languages
Eventually, we want to be able to say, whether in your own neighborhood or a city across the globe, our technology will be needed to break through barriers - whether it's money, time, languages, or simply choice.
Gillian Tans
Time
Technology
Money
Will
Own
Our
Say
Neighborhood
City
Able
Through
Simply
Globe
Want
Break
Whether
Choice
Across
Your
Languages
Barriers
Eventually
Needed
An American customer can book in English all over the world, but also, somebody from Japan or China can book in their own language everywhere. We translate all of our content into these languages, and that's quite unique. We service our direct customers - the innkeepers - as well in their own language.
Gillian Tans
Service
Book
World
Language
Somebody
Own
Our
Everywhere
Direct
Over
Also
Well
Content
American
Quite
China
Japan
Customer
Customers
Translate
Languages
English
Unique
Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
Gloria Estefan
You
Singing
Once
Those
Sexy
Global
Know
Audience
Romance
Sensual
Languages
Why
Why Not
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.
Harold Bloom
Stage
Everyone
Everywhere
Shakespeare
He
Put
True
Feels
Him
Exists
Author
Languages
Multicultural
I have a good ear for languages.
Harry Dean Stanton
Good
Languages
Ear
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
Harry Mathews
Good
Language
Become
Fluency
Else
France
Dream
Able
Someone
Both
Through
Had
Perhaps
Also
Mistaken
Because
Italy
Being
Fantasy
Really
Languages
I speak three languages. I'm pretty handsome myself.
Henry Cejudo
Myself
Speak
Three
Pretty
Handsome
Languages
Switching languages is a form of conversion. And like all conversions, whether it's judged a failure or a success, it excites the desire to leave, go elsewhere, adopt a new language and start all over again. It also means that a conscious effort is demanded to remain still.
Hisham Matar
Success
Failure
Language
Elsewhere
Adopt
Remain
Excites
Demanded
Over
New
Like
Also
Judged
Still
Leave
Go
Effort
Form
Whether
Again
Conversion
Means
Languages
Switching
Conscious
Conscious Effort
Start
Desire
Every child needs to become literate in one or more languages, and every child should become comfortable in the major scholarly disciplines - historical, scientific, mathematical, and artistic-humanistic thinking. Beyond that, I am not in favour of a uniform system. I think there should be some choices.
Howard Gardner
Needs
Become
Every
Think
Thinking
System
Favour
Some
More
Scholarly
Major
Beyond
Comfortable
Disciplines
Scientific
Am
Mathematical
Historical
Child
Literate
Uniform
Choices
Should
Languages
I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.
Hussein Chalayan
Life
Art
History
Problem
Think
Biology
Drawn
Would
Would-Be
About
Given
More
Had
Between
Course
Lot
Taught
Loved
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Meaning
Languages
Connections
Enjoyable
Things
As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.
Ibrahim Rugova
Great
Situation
Young
President
About
Having
More
Potential
Employment
Concerned
Around
Am
Foreign
Kosovo
Foreign Languages
Current
Current Situation
Expertise
Which
Languages
Speaking
Standing
Many
Population
Wide
If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
Ilan Stavans
World
Word
Language
Think
Other
Give
Writer
New
His
New Word
Maybe
Anything
Languages
My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing with it, and I love picking up new melodies.
Inbar Lavi
Love
Mom
Melodies
Kinds
Picking
New
Polish
Around
Up
Different
Grew
Languages
Dad
Playing
I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe.
Israel Horovitz
Seen
Globe
Around
Languages
Productions
Dozens
I forced myself to watch Spanish TV and listen to Spanish radio all the time. I think I'm lucky because, for whatever reason, people from the Balkans seem to have a talent for learning languages.
Ivan Rakitic
Time
Myself
Learning
People
Whatever
Think
TV
Seem
Talent
Forced
Because
Balkans
Listen
Spanish
Languages
Reason
Radio
Lucky
Watch
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J. G. Ballard
Technology
Science
Speak
Science And Technology
Think
Increasing
Those
Mute
Remain
Around
Dictate
Either
Which
Us
Use
Languages
Multiply
Extent
I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
Speak
Behavior
Father
Shifting
Fluent
Our
Correct
Would
Brother
He
Because
Trying
Quite
Wanted
Us
Used
Languages
English
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Could
Write
Since
Make
Make Up
Been
Up
Begin
Children
Languages
Many
Imaginary
After doing the Bengali 'Antar Mahal,' I felt I should work with all Indian languages.
Jackie Shroff
Work
Bengali
Indian
Felt
Doing
After
Should
Languages
Bobby and I went through some old questionnaires about customer requirements for languages, then we compiled a new one and sent it out to a few dozen people we knew.
James Frank
People
Old
Few
Out
Some
About
Through
Knew
New
New One
Customer
Sent
Then
Bobby
Requirements
Languages
Dozen
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.
James Loeb
Time
Day
Made
Past
Rich
Our
Ancient
Out
Classical
Give
Could
Student
Attention
Schools
Enable
Afford
Get
Literature
Grandfathers
Languages
Teaching
Lives
Sufficient
Enjoyment
Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.
James Salter
You
Will
Books
Approximation
Only
Never
Written
Like
Know
Learn
Read
Get
Going
Really
Languages
Chance
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