Foreign Quotes
1571 quotes by 1108 authors
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If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because…
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated…
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an…
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go…
— Jesse Ventura
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I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the…
— Roger Waters
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My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that…
— Arabella Weir
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With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
— Arabella Weir
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
— Billy Wilder
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As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign…
— Jonathan Winters
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The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in…
— James Wolcott
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
— Virginia Woolf
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Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not…
— Thom Yorke
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If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is…
— Fareed Zakaria
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In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
— Howard Zinn
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There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation,…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far…
— Neil Gaiman
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Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy.…
— Ray Bradbury
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But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't…
— Bill Bryson
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We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had…
— Khaled Hosseini
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