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#foreigner

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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.


Ralph Allen


#awards #day #discipline #during #emotion

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.


Lou Gramm


#i #involved #play #songs #still

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.


John Mahoney


#going #i #life #like #living

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


#america #basketball #culture #difficult #foreign

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.


Roman Polanski


#always #being #car #fact #foreigner

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.


Willard Van Orman Quine


#english #foreigner #independent #only #social

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.


Edward Sapir


#bother #calculated #far #foreigner #french

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.


Cornelia Otis Skinner


#across #between #both #cement #charged

But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.


Mordechai Vanunu


#am #country #foreigners #happy #i

I was very pink and young and English; and quite prepared for a Continent complete with poisonous drains, roast frogs, bedbugs and vice.


Christopher Isherwood


#education






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