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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
- Nov 07, 2020
I speak three other languages - Serbian, French, and Italian - but typically read in English.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If something interesting comes up, I would love to do something in Bangla in future, especially since I can speak Bangali fluently.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides Hindi and English, I can speak in Maithli, my native language, and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just about make a smattering at Marathi.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can speak Esperanto like a native.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my mother told me they have to sell me, I couldn't breathe; I couldn't speak.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of trying to be a sex symbol or any of that stuff because I really like the music to speak for itself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not just my music. Not everyone just listens to grime now 'cause of Skepta. They like how we speak. They like the slang. They like how we dress. They listen to the music. It's everything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go.
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- Nov 07, 2020