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A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. -- David Crystal
All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers. -- Azim Premji
I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power. -- Maurice Druon
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude. -- Rupert Murdoch
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema. -- Andrzej Wajda
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. -- Salman Rushdie
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
With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan. -- Martin Jacques
I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that. -- Bruno Zheng Wu
English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive. -- Robert McCrum
The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language. -- Raj Thackeray

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