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> [When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first few sentences you'll find yourself in very strange shape, because you're still the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/when-you-speak-a-foreign-language-you-become-someone-else-if-you-aren/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

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## More by Eugene Green

> [I have much respect for the people that I work with, and it's reciprocal. My shoots are always very calm. Everyone has their work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/i-have-much-respect-for-the-people-that-i-work-with-and-it-s/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

> [Spiritual truth is something that is so far from us - without any form or name that we can imagine - that we need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/spiritual-truth-is-something-that-is-so-far-from-us-without-any-form/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

> [The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/the-information-that-was-contained-in-a-cathedral-was-based-upon-a/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

> [Mature people transmit to young people a certain wisdom that comes from maturity, but young people are close to a more intuitive wisdom, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/mature-people-transmit-to-young-people-a-certain-wisdom-that-comes/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

> [I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/i-think-that-if-you-have-a-sense-of-the-sacredness-of-nature-and-of/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

> [In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of Western culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/in-france-we-have-la-cit-which-means-that-atheism-is-almost-our-state/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

> [When you see people on the street, they're living in their phones. They aren't living where they are - they haven't got the energy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/when-you-see-people-on-the-street-they-re-living-in-their-phones-they/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

> [One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/one-of-the-biggest-problems-of-our-contemporary-civilization-is-that/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

> [When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/when-you-speak-a-foreign-language-you-become-someone-else-if-you-aren/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

> [It's one of the bases of all human existence - the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It's something we can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/it-s-one-of-the-bases-of-all-human-existence-the-relation-between/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

> [I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/i-work-very-hard-to-achieve-simplicity-which-is-never-natural-never/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

> [I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/i-don-t-like-things-to-be-overcharged-because-otherwise-everyone/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

> [Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe the other.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-green/baroque-civilization-believed-in-two-truths-which-for-a-post-18th/)

[Eugene Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-green/)

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