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- Nov 07, 2020
Speak Quotes
The languages, and limits, people speak within.
A couple of these speak quotes are about language and identity specifically, children translating for family members, and a cultural background where the expected native language was never actually spoken at home. The Language collection covers this in more depth.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up around Vietnamese refugees, around people who don't speak English as a first language.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents speak with an accent. A lot of people that I know speak with an accent. I have friends who speak with an accent. Accents in a vacuum aren't a problem; it's how you portray those characters and how well they're served in a script.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asian-Americans, we're not a monolithic group. There might be some Asians who are second-generation, third-generation, who may not speak the language that their parents or their grandparents spoke.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up speaking Vietnamese - that was my first language because my parents didn't speak any English, and I didn't learn English until I started school.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak a kind of Hapsburg language.
- Nov 07, 2020
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
- Nov 07, 2020
You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.
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- Nov 07, 2020