#foreigner

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

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

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

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#foreigners #hollywood #i #joke #naked

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. ↗

— Steven Biko

#birth #black #consciousness #country #dignity

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans. ↗

— Michael Caine

#american film #anti-american #film #foreigners #i

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#food #foreigners #give #our #our people

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#foreigners #france #invest #more #want

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#degree #different #different names #extraordinary #foreigners

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners. ↗

— John H. Speke

#afterwards #again #climate #ever #foreigners