#fluent

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. ↗

— Greg Bear

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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

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

— Yani Tseng

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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

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

— Francois Hollande

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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

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As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. ↗

— William Glasser

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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