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It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language. -- Billy Collins
I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it. -- Noel Gallagher
Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains. -- Jaromir Jagr
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 speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school. -- Emily Rios
I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively. -- Angela Bassett
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. -- Mignon McLaughlin
One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather. -- Deanna Raybourn
What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY. -- Vicki Baum
The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it. -- Edith Wharton
Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese . For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools. -- Hugo Chavez

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