#fluent

I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#am #come #down #english #fluent

I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#honored #i #i am #influential #most

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#anti-semitism #became #because #book #brother

He knows so little and knows it so fluently. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#knows #little

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play. ↗

— Danny Glover

#black #called #campus #cleaver #communications

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#influential #music #theater #very #writing

Harley's been influential, but I'm not a big Harley fan. ↗

— Noah Hathaway

#big #fan #harley #i #influential

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#development #europe #france #influential #model

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#also #been #our #society #unfortunately

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#best #canadians #despite #difficult #either