Quotes with english-speaking

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  • Theodore Roosevelt Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Alex Cox Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Caroline Winberg Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Aristotle Onassis Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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  • Robert Briffault For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.
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  • Ban Ki-moon Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Brent Sexton Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • David Hume Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
    A Treatise of Human Nature
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • John Gray Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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  • Bernard Berenson German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bruce Bennett I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook.
    Bruce Bennett
    American actor (1906 - 2007)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alan Parsons I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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