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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. -- Marlene Dietrich
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. -- Martin Heidegger
I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965. -- Wanda Jackson
It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing? -- Ken Follett
The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian. -- Bayard Taylor
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German. -- Martin Freeman
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult. -- Rafael Nadal
I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic. -- Cote de Pablo
For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little. -- Heinrich Boll
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it. -- Maurice Druon
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people. -- Anthony Kiedis
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. -- Michelle Hunziker
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German. -- Stefan Zweig
My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house. -- Daniel Bruhl
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own. -- Paul Engle
Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house. -- Daniel Bruhl
I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element. -- Kirsten Dunst
I never felt that although we were based in Germany, Puma was and should be considered as a German brand. So we restructured it in a way that positioned us as a global brand, with English being the corporate language, rather than us looking at it from a German perspective. -- Jochen Zeitz
Germany has great skill levels, great infrastructure, high-quality plant. If you go to the U.K., we're very creative, and we've got the language, but energy costs are pretty much the most expensive in the Western world; pensions are pretty expensive, and the skills are significantly below those in Germany and the U.S. -- Jim Ratcliffe
The German language is the organ among the languages. -- Jean Paul
Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German. -- Anne Frank
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. -- Mark Twain
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary -- Dave Kellett
Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language. -- Jacob Grimm
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. -- Willie Rushton
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. -- Karl Kraus
I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language. -- Mark Twain
Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization. -- Alice Schwarzer
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English? -- Marlene Dietrich
My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway. -- Alex Bosworth
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language. -- Mark Twain
When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language -- John Irving
The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. -- Amos Oz
All German women are beautiful. It's not for nothing that we talk of the German "FrÃ¤uleinwunder." You don't get this word in any other language. -- Heidi Klum
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German. -- Paul Celan
German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful. -- Paul Celan

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