A Quote by Buck Henry

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Buck Henry

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Buck Henry
American - Actor
December 9, 1930 - January 8, 2020

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Julia Glass

New Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese. In a short period of time the Republicans have come quite a long way. The last Republican president wasn't even fluent in English.

David Letterman

Guess who's running for president? Jeb Bush. Jeb was governor of Florida and he speaks fluent Spanish, which raises the question: What language did his brother speak? What was that?

David Letterman

There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild.

Boyd Norton

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.

Tim Ferriss

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

Gabe Newell

I must say I'm not 100% fluent in Sign Language, but I am working on it!

Sundra Oakley

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

Max von Sydow

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

Cote de Pablo

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

Chath Piersath

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

Paul Theroux

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

Mother Teresa

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

Paul O'Grady

I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.

Will Ferrell

The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don't learn a language early on, it's nigh impossible to become truly fluent.

Sam Kean

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