Foreign Language Quotes - Page 4

• I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

  Michio Kaku

  Class, Effort, Graduates

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• I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Fun, Acting, Different

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• My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

  Arabella Weir

  Children, Real, Coffee

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• ¿Por qué tengo constantemente la sensación de que todos habláis un idioma extranjero? ¿Qué significa "comer una hamburguesa en el Hard Rock"? (Julian) El Hard Rock Café es un restaurante. (Grace) ¿Comes en un sitio que anuncia que su comida es dura como una roca? (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Rocks, Grace

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• My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

  Deb Caletti

  Language, Speak, Subconscious

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Couple, Kids, Air

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• Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

  Tim Ferriss

  Sports, Language, Excellent

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• Vagamente, como cuando estás estudiando una lengua extranjera y lees una página que al principio no entiendes, hasta que una palabra o una frase te dan una pista; y de repente una sospecha, por así decirlo, del sentido de los destellos a través de tu atribulado ingenio, vagamente ella obtuvo una idea del funcionamiento de la mente de Walter. Era como un paisaje oscuro y ominoso visto por un relámpago y en un momento oculto de nuevo por la noche. Se estremeció ante lo que vio.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Oscuridad, Noche, Dar

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• Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Language, Modern

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• I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

  Rex Stout

  Book, Stories, Letters

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I." by Sandra Schmidt in Life magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.

  David McCullough

  Profesor, Niños, Real

  Fuente: www.neh.gov

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• The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

  Havelock Ellis

  Feelings, World, Becoming

  Havelock Ellis (1912). "La tarea de la higiene social"

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• Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.

  Vallabhbhai Patel

  Independent, Leader, India

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• El Oscar en lengua extranjera no es para el productor o el director, sino para el país.

  Deniz Gamze Erguven

  Country, Directors, Oscars

  Fuente: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in a foreign language that they can't understand. If they want, you can translate it to them. But it is their choice. In general, though, I think Israelis don't want to know. Very few do. Basically, I write to the converted.

  Amira Hass

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

  Philip-Lorca diCorcia

  Photography, Thinking, Language

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• In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

  Alejandro González Iñárritu

  People, United States, Language

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Fatherhood, Helping

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• Cuando recuerdo a mis profesores en la escuela, me doy cuenta de que la mitad de ellos eran anormales. . . . Los alumnos de la antigua Austria fuimos educados en el respeto a los ancianos y a las mujeres. Pero con nuestros profesores no teníamos piedad; eran nuestros enemigos naturales. La mayoría de ellos estaban algo trastornados mentalmente, ¡y bastantes acabaron sus días como auténticos lunáticos! . . . Yo me llevaba especialmente mal con los profesores. No mostraba la menor aptitud para las lenguas extranjeras, aunque podría haberlo hecho si el profesor no hubiera sido un idiota congénito. No podía soportar verle.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, School, Sight

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• Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

  Sally Phillips

  Insecure, Dvds, Language

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• I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in a foreign language, but certainly more socially and politically engaged films, or films that will happen where the story takes place outside the United States.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Optimistic, United States, Stories

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Si uno mira los Oscar y se fija en la categoría de mejor película en lengua extranjera, ve que las películas proceden de todas partes: de Quebec, Israel, Polonia y Bélgica. No son las habituales francesas, alemanas, etc. Esta categoría se está abriendo a películas socialmente comprometidas y políticas. Creo que también vamos a ver un trasvase a las categorías principales. Ahora forma parte de este entorno global y agradezco que la Academia tenga esta ventana abierta al cine mundial.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Agradecimiento, Pensamiento, Israel

  Fuente: collider.com

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• I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Thinking, Special, Actors

  Fuente: collider.com

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• When I was about 17, I didn't speak. English was like a foreign language. I'd just grunt. The only time I talked was when I said my lines on set. I didn't speak to any of the actors or anything. Then one day Alison from the Corrie press office started talking to me in the green room and I just decided to talk back. She ran upstairs to tell everyone that she'd just had a 10-minute conversation with me like it was the most unbelievable thing in the world. I just woke up one day and thought, 'I'm going to talk today'. I've really made up for lost time since.

  Jack P. Shepherd

  Talking, Speak English, Office

  Fuente: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Latin, America, Tragedy

  Fuente: deadline.com

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