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I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.

~Aaron Schock

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The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

~Adoniram Judson

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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Audience Been Books Europe Expect Feeling Foreign Foreign Language Language Like Lot People Read Readers Some Them

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Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Topics: Audiences Been Choice Cost Cultivated Film Films Foreign Foreign Language Know Language Making Market Reduced Unfortunately You

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Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

~Aravind Adiga

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The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

~Ato Boldon

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People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.

~Barry Ritholtz

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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

~Bayard Taylor

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For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.

~Becky Lynch

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