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I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

~Alexei Sayle

Topics: Arabic Around Clothes Experts Friend Go Italian Lebanese Like Look Lot Make Me My Friend Nice Politics Pretending Professor Right Robert Sophisticated Summer Though Winter Work

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My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon.

~Amal Clooney

Topics: Arabic Born Hope Lebanon Means Name War I Was Born

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Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.

~Ameen Rihani

Topics: Adds Arabic Books Broad Generally Gloom Independent Margin Old Page Printed Separate Text Wherein Work

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The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

~Amin Maalouf

Topics: Arabic Basic Being Christian Fact Having Holy Identity Islam Language Mother Mother Tongue Paradoxes Shaped Simultaneously Tongue

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It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

~Aml Ameen

Topics: Alchemy Arabic Best Delusion Desire Exist Feeling Funny Funny Thing Hope Investing Life Live Means Mind Name Once Principle Projection Reality Something Suppose Thing To Live By Turning Witness Worst You Your

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I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Arabic Forgotten How Lot Piano Play Speak Studied Things Though Two Years

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I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Acquired Arabic Became Bit Born Brazilian British Citizenship English Even Everything Family French German Greek Had Italian Languages Many Members People Seven Speak Subsequently Turkish Uncommon I Was Born

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All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

~Angelina Jolie

Topics: Arabic Asked Different Focusing French German Kids Language Languages Learn Learning Mad Really Russian Sign Speaking Taken Them Vietnamese Wanted Which

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I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of France. And I was fascinated by Versailles.

~Azzedine Alaia

Topics: Along Also Arabic Entire Fascinated France French History Kings Knew Learned Versailles

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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

~Barry Jenkins

Topics: Actor All My Work Appeared Arabic Back Black Cool Features Films French Funny Kinds Languages Me Mean Reading Really Shorts Someone Span Think Were Whether Work I Think

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