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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

Topics: Among Away Criminal Criminal Justice English-Speaking Everywhere Justice Legal Privileges Punishments Race Rude Special Tendency Were

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French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

~Alma Gluck

Topics: Complex Difficult English-Speaking French Full Many More Person Requires Sing Subtlety Trying Utmost Ways

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In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Elderly English-Speaking Get Indeed Treated Very Well World

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Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.

~Art Malik

Topics: Always American British Characters English-Speaking Film Having Indian Mother Mother Tongue Portrayed Projects Tongue Use Wanted

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I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

~Audrey Tautou

Topics: English-Speaking Interested Not Interested Received Scripts Some Them

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I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

~Audrey Tautou

Topics: Director English-Speaking Films Important Love Me Occasionally Script Would

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Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title.

~Austin Clarke

Topics: Age Become Butler Celtic Claim Dim Disputed English-Speaking Few Leading New New Age Nineties None Poet Remote Singer Title Twilight William World Would

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The U.K. and the U.S. are quite similar in that they have high-productivity, English-speaking workforces who don't mind working long hours. Working in those countries is not a problem.

~Azim Premji

Topics: Countries English-Speaking Hours Long Long Hours Mind Problem Quite Similar Those Who Working

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I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Am Bible Brought Childhood Christians Common Communities Down English-Speaking Ignorant Language Most Never Property Reality Remembered Sat Studied Up Use Were Who Work

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I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

~Edgar Ramirez

Topics: Austria Classes Country English English-Speaking Ever German Had Language Lived Lot Never School Second

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