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Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

Michael Korda

WarMeWorldWorld War IEnglish

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Karl Marx

RevolutionSpiritEnglishMaterial

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

Go Ah-sung

MeEnvironmentDoneProjectEnglish

I have a dog. It's an English mastiff called Dolly. Her middle name is Poppy.

Millie Bobby Brown

DogNameHerEnglishMiddlePoppy

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

Irvine Welsh

SoulGotEnglishFunkPreciseVery

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

Fredrik Bajer

DoubtWillViceEnglishBeenDemand

When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'

Liu Wen

LoveFriendsStudyingWatchEnglish

Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain.

Ilan Stavans

MarriageDivorceHispanicEnglish

I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs.

Enrique Iglesias

CoolFeelGoEnglishSongsI Feel

My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.

Joseph Bruchac

FamilyFatherMotherSideEnglish

When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.

G-Dragon

PowerEnergyKnowYoungEnglishAny

I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.

David Means

PoetryCollegeOhioEnglishDid

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

Diana Nyad

SwimmingAccomplishDoneEnglish

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

C. S. Lewis

GoodTimePeoplePlaceTalkEnglish

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

David Bowie

MediaBadRadioSystemEnglishVery

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Denholm Elliott

JoyFindSomethingEnglishWhole

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

Damon Albarn

CountryEmotionEnglishIrrational

Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY.

Billy Collins

AppreciationYouTeachNeedEnglish

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Christopher Hitchens

ReligionYouKnowEnglishCompulsory

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

Azim Premji

SpeakI CanUnderstandTwoEnglish

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

Chris Martin

PeopleNegativeUpSideUsEnglish

Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.

Alex Kingston

TimePeopleKnowBritishEnglish

I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?''

Claudio Ranieri

SayingAskEnglishHearWordTutor

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Alan Perlis

ProgrammingEnglishWouldWordOur

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