I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.
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I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.
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SEBASTIAN ARCELUS The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
ROBERT MORGAN I don't know that I necessarily feel more comfortable in the context of smaller films, but I tend to...
ELIJAH WOOD I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.
EVA GREEN I think left field is the tougher of the two [corner positions]. Right-handed hitters tend to hook b...
TONY GWYNN I believe in me more than anything in this world.
WILMA RUDOLPH I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowi...
WILLIAM BOYD I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these lan...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English c...
J. CHRISTOPHER HEROLD I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.
META GOLDING My normal life is, I love to travel and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place to...
ALEXA DAVALOS I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I w...
ALEXA DAVALOS I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all ...
MIRANDA JULY I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it...
DAVID RAKOFF I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it...
DAVID RAKOFF I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English ...
SALLY KIRKLAND In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than th...
KAREN MAITLAND I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.
AISHWARYA RAI I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love fo...
NICOLAS SARKOZY If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything...
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so ...
BERENICE MARLOHE They tend to hold investment grade paper, no junk, and they more often than not tend to have a fairl...
ANDREW CLARK I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated b...
HELEN MIRREN The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all ...
BERNARD PIVOT I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
, IN THE NEW REPUBLIC Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right.
, QUOTED IN ASIAWEEK MAGAZINE Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
, IN _A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY_ My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
NAOMIE HARRIS I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing ap...
CYNTHIA NIXON I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
CHRISTIE HEFNER I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any...
LEV GROSSMAN There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often ...
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN As I was growing up, French was the language in the house, so when I started school there were lots ...
ALISON MOYET Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things od...
BILL BRYSON I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.
FAIRUZA BALK I understand a little English from my days in Dallas. But when they speak French, I'm lost. Sometime...
ELIAS MARTINEZ Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French....
ROSE LESLIE The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
WILFRID LAURIER Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my ...
ZOE WANAMAKER An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a c...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly ...
VICTOR HUGO I tend to do things a bit more symmetrically. I find it more balanced and calming.
LINDA WALL I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
ERIC CLAPTON I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
T. BOONE PICKENS I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
JODIE FOSTER I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching f...
LAILA ROBINS When I work in English, I'd say I don't see a big difference in my rapport with my team or t...
DENIS VILLENEUVE I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak Fr...
SEAN CONNERY I don't believe in the curse, so I don't blame the curse. I think maybe we love our boys too much so...
DORIS DAVIS French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of com...
ALMA GLUCK I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater...
JAMES MADISON I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly w...
KARL LAGERFELD People tend to work more in Asia than other regions of the world.
DIANE CRISPELL It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY To-do list : to-do list!
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and...
CHEECH MARIN The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I believe in music.
ZUBIN MEHTA I believe in my music.
RALPH STANLEY I believe in karma.
CHAD KROEGER I believe in forgiveness.
PAM BONDI I believe in my writing.
BARRY MANILOW I believe in rituals.
CHARLES SIMONYI I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'
GUILLAUME CANET When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't...
EDMUND WHITE I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
MAYA ANGELOU It tends to happen more often in the heavily populated areas because that's where the parties tend t...
ALLAN HOFFENBLUM No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of ...
OWEN PATERSON I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
STEPHEN COVEY [While French and Vietnamese styles are often found combined in restaurant settings around the world...
MAI PHAM Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to th...
MAHATMA GANDHI I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Isla...
ANNIE BESANT ...What I like does tend to be left-field. I feel somehow much more comfortable playing it. I relate...
JOHNNY DEPP I tend to lose myself often. To which me gets mad at I for.
CHELSEA R. BLUES The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third ge...
BOBBY JINDAL Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have kn...
WILLIAM HAZLITT You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After th...
PAULINE MAROIS I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.
EDWIN STARR Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
HANNA ROSIN I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. S...
KENNETH BRANAGH French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.
STEPHANIE PERKINS I'm quite discreet. I think I'd rather focus on my work. So, I only speak when I have someth...
DELPHINE ARNAULT It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and th...
DAVID SEDARIS We see this in prison more often than in churches. I believe you guys in here totally rely on God.
JAMES HELTON I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't ...
EVA GREEN I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect t...
TERRY PRATCHETT I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it's good for me.
KELLY SUE DECONNICK I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the number...
FREDDY ADU People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and ten...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and ten...
AULIQ ICE I think that in France, we should do like the French people.
MARINE LE PEN We have more non-English players in our league than any other country in the world.
GORDON TAYLOR We suffer more often in imagination than in reality
SENECA If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English
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