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• People know two languages: their native language and gibberish.

  Maribel C. Pagan

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• I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

  Keith Haring

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• I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

  Rafael Nadal

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• Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

  Frank Capra

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• I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

  Chris Marker

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• It’s like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There’s all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

  William T. Wiley

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• Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn’t.

  Edward Hall

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• National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

  Edward Sapir

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• These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

  Edward Sapir

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• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  Edward V. Lucas

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• I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

  Ella Maillart

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• I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages.

  Nick Mancuso

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