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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work. -- A. R. Rahman
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German. -- Martin Freeman
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. -- Hu Shih
At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. -- Robyn Davidson
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture. -- Bernard Pivot
This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds - they lose a lot of their parents' and grandparents' teachings, language and culture because they have to deal with another language and culture 24/7. By the time I was 44, I was terrible at Spanish. I was always intimidated whenever I had to speak it. -- Erik Estrada
A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture. -- Charlie Waite
If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law? -- Paul Craig Roberts
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture. -- Taslima Nasrin
You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture. -- Brett Somers
Some version of 'Deal or No Deal' airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it's the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck. -- Howie Mandel
... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement. -- Edward T. Hall
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me. -- Arthur Golden
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an act of ethnocentric violence by uprooting the text from the language and culture that gave it life. Translating into current, standard English at once conceals that violence and homogenizes foreign cultures, -- Lawrence Venuti
Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace and love of life, with respect for everyone. Become craftsmen of a new humanity, where brothers and sisters - members all of the same family - are able at last to live in peace. -- Pope John Paul II
My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time. -- Edward Abbey
I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities. -- Elif Safak
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. -- Bobby Jindal
I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture. -- Matthew Moy
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures. -- Jet Li
Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined. -- Dayananda Saraswati
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages. -- N. Scott Momaday
While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all. -- Carre Otis
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. -- David Remnick
Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it's a love of food and drink. -- Jose Andres Puerta
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language. -- Romeo Santos
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. -- Yao Ming
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture. -- Edward T. Hall
Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly. So no particular language is in the genes. But what might be in the genes is the ability to acquire language. -- Steven Pinker
To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. -- Frantz Fanon
Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. -- Ravi Zacharias
In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture. -- Adrienne Rich
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
I hope we can all overcome any differences of culture, race, and language. -- James E. Faust
Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words. -- Cynthia Ozick
If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language. -- Joanne Harris
Whoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of thestate and its language. -- Raj Thackeray
Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. -- Raymond Williams
I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture. -- Sarah Charlesworth
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. -- Angela Carter
Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam. -- Tariq Ramadan
The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path. -- Terence McKenna
There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view. -- Desmond Tutu
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up. -- Herb Ritts
music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them. -- Irene Nemirovsky
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint. -- Gates McFadden
My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that. -- James Kelman
If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside. -- Khaled Hosseini
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. -- Daniel Tammet
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. -- Rita Mae Brown
Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. -- Allan Bloom
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. -- Peter HÃ¸eg
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future. -- Robert Payne
Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial. -- Terence McKenna
Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it. -- Bridgit Mendler
Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries. -- Geoff Zanelli
If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker's life. -- Saul Zaentz
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence. -- Stewart Brand
If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things. -- Maya Angelou
I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English. -- Laura Bailey
Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body. -- Wangechi Mutu
The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated. -- David Bentley
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place. -- Helen Dunmore
I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally. -- Terence McKenna
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology. -- Antonio Damasio
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans â?? language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce. -- Paul Bloom

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