Bilingual Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'
— Dave Chappelle
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We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity,…
— Newt Gingrich
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I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
— Jon Secada
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All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
— Helen Vendler
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After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is…
— Stephen Harper
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home.…
— Michel Odent
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He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.
— Don King
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The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was…
— Lisa Lutz
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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
— Bill Vaughan
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Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.
— Stephen Harper
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All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
— Gordie Howe
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My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to…
— Ernest Istook
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An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think…
— John Millington Synge
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An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely,…
— Jeremy Narby
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Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish,…
— Lee Child
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You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me…
— Emily Rios
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History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing…
— Richard Lamm
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Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to…
— Sendhil Mullainathan
Who Wrote These Bilingual Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Bilingual Quotes as follows: