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I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. -- Julian Assange
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun. -- Barbara Kruger
Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business life. During my football career I realised quickly what difference language skills can make -- Gary Lineker
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. -- Thad Cochran
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry. -- Erland Josephson
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. -- Steven Pinker
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills. -- Robert Gottlieb
For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on. -- Steven Pinker
You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge. -- Yuri Milner
Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream of information were not necessarily helpful. Rather, early, rich language skills were more likely to develop when parents provided lots of opportunities for their infants and toddlers to "talk" and when parents listened and responded to the babies' communications. -- Jane Brody
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills. -- Warwick Davis
I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent. -- Daniel Tammet
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language. -- John Milius
You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box. -- Isla Fisher
My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency of the human spirit - the skill and insight of the writer lifting the parochial novel above the level of regional concern. Making it personal, national, and universal. -- Theresa Breslin
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
We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together. -- Vincent Nichols
I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I'd think, when I'm grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted. -- Michael Palin
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills." -- Warwick Davis
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority. -- Reggie Watts
One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again. -- Ron Jeffries
Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems. -- Michelle Obama
I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs. -- Shawne Merriman
Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making. -- Richard Louv

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