#fluent

You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. ↗

— Scott Adams

#influential #life

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#i #i can #influential #lot #many

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm. ↗

— David Dewhurst

#back #bolivia #came #comfortable #comfortable talking

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