Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove:   Foreign

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.
~Margaret Atwood

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.
~Jeanette Winterson

I’ve been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don’t have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That’s why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?
~Isabel Allende

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I am tired of loving a foreign muse.
~Stephen Vincent Benet

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Prewritten Prompt for circa 06/20:   return

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The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.
~Barbara Ehrenreich

I have studied many languages – French, Spanish and a little Italian, but no one told me that Statistics was a foreign language.
~Charmaine J Forde

Basque is one of the world’s more alarming languages. Only a handful of adult foreigners, they say, have ever managed to learn it. The Devil tried once and mastered only three words – profanities, I assume.
~Jan Morris

I’ve had Republicans come to me and say, ‘Tell me how I should talk to young people!’ as if it’s some foreign language or something.
~Aaron Schock

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
~Anne Tyler

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.
~David Sedaris

The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It’s a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.
~May Sarton

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Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.
~Henry Longhurst

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.
~Ato Boldon

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
~John Steinbeck

It’s time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.
~Phyllis Schlafly

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn’t win any more competitions in that time.
~Arsene Wenger

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.
~Tim Ferriss

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Posted From The Grove

A woman is a foreign land.
~Coventry

She is written in a foreign tongue.
~Henry James

Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so. A writer is a foreign country.
~Marguerite Duras

I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concerning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.
~W H Auden

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Here she was, being rescued by a socialist, feminist, lesbian, baby-killing, foreign terrorist. What would the ladies in the sewing circle say to that?
~Hillary Jordan

People don’t talk to you properly. It’s the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it’s a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
~Zaha Hadid

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.
~John Milton

Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.
~Eleanor Smeal

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
~Margaret Thatcher

The reason I made women’s issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.
~Madeleine Albright

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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
~Alan Greenspan

Men and women — even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.
~Mark Twain

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~hochelaga:  The Oldest (Known) Song of All Time   (4:31)   Syrian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KElPnD-dbkk

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~throughline:  The Scariest Movie Monster (from Annihilation)   (9:46)   death: foreign to life, or release; the question: why did you bring me back?
https://vimeo.com/546172776

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~ErnestBorg9:  John Cleese & Rowan Atkinson – Beekeeping   (4:35)   English humour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGFz9gt0-Fc&t=8s

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~Topic:  MEATS   (10:34)   food foreign to pregnant vegan
https://vimeo.com/544092396

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~Mike Oblinski:  Shadows In The Sky – feat. The Last Goodbye w/ Eric Kinny/Danica Dora   (4:52)   foreign life of clouds
https://vimeo.com/537266421

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But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.
~Adam Smith

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
~Richard Cobden

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
~George Washington

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Even if there’s no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there’s no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship.
~Robert Reich

If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.
~Lou Dobbs

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What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
~Ludwig von Mises

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.
~Lawrence Eagleburger

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
~Will Durant

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Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries.
~Bill Gross

I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.
~John James Cowperthwaite

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
~Adam McKay

Even the best data security systems can’t protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.
~Melissa Bean

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Don’t negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every year.
~Drew Curtis

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It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.
~Christopher Bond

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.
~Hassanal Bolkiah

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That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
~Lyn Nofziger

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.
~E F Schumacher

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VIDEO:

Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don’t make any sense.
~Boris Kodjoe

People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it’s quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That’s why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents.
~Dominic Purcell

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys
~Max von Sydow

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
~Bela Lugosi

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It’s crazy, it’s wild, who knows, maybe they’ll take you because you certainly don’t fit in, in the American spectrum of news.
~Christiane Amanpour

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.
~Dennis Farina

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As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
~Esa-Pekka Salonen

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
~Billy Wilder

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
~Billy Wilder

I grew up watching foreign programs – American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. ‘The Color Purple’ was the first time I saw people who looked like me.
~Lupita Nyong’o

I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
~Madonna Ciccone

“Do you like foreign films?”
“With subtitles?”
“Yes.”
“I hate those types of films.”
“Me too,” Cliff says. “Mostly because…”
“No happy endings.”
~Matthew Quick

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~Omeleto:  Welcome   (17:20)   love @US Immigration, foreign finish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTaHu0ZYgCA

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~Omeleto:  The Clue   (9:57)   treasure hunt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ASOd2iazo&t=2s

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~Windstruck Productions:  Listen To Me   (8:08)   the sky has different colors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctbI3RftTNk

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~MovieBrats Pictures:  Asternauts   (16:39)   Lighthearted, character driven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYBF2v0pbCM

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I’ve had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I’m also helpless in two or three other languages.
~Peter Høeg

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.
~Monique Truong

Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it as if you were pretending to be unacquainted.
~Michael Bassey Johnson

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.
~Munia Khan

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Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
~Michael Gove

It’s important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you’re not brought up with it
~Max von Sydow

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You’d be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
~Judith Martin

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.
~Bill Cosby

Children are all foreigners.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you’ve studied, how do you say ‘doorknob’?

Half of the time I don’t know what they’re talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I’m a foreigner in the world and I don’t understand the language.
~Jean Webster

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
~Learned Hand

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My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.
~Deb Caletti

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I’m learning,
~Yehuda Amichai

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
~Jacques Derrida

The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages – Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.
~Amos Oz

People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
~Barry Ritholtz

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I’m so far gone that I’m telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.
~Richard Peck

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
~Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
~Goethe

I speak the truth but I guess that’s a foreign language to ya’ll!
~Lil Wayne

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My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, “Woof!” The other replies, “Moo!” The dog is perplexed. “Moo? Why did you say ‘Moo’?” The other dog says, “I’m trying to learn a foreign language.”
~Morey Amsterdam

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.
~Havelock Ellis

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MUSIC:

I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There’s this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, when the cultures collide and something sort of new comes out of it.
~Hans Zimmer

I’ve moved around so much my whole life, and I’ve gotten so used to being the Other in situations – the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I’ve ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
~Abigail Washburn

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Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
~Langston Hughes

Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don’t understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.
~Zach Condon

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
~Maureen Forrester

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
~Marilyn Horne

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.
~Charlotte Gainsbourg

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I’ve got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I’m having my make-up put on at 6am and I need to be warmed up gently, it’s always Ella Fitzgerald or Nina Simone.
~Natalie Dormer

Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it’s a similar thing: “OK, I’m going to put something on the page that will spook you into rushing.” Little games you can play.
~Nico Muhly

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I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.
~John Newbery

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
~David Hockney

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
~Pico Iyer

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.
~Squeak Carnwath

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Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.
~Philip-Lorca diCorcia

As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.
~Danny Lyon

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.
~Jerzy Kosinski

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~Foreigner
I Want To Know What Love Is   (5:01)   story-lined
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Pr1_v7hsw

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I Don’t Want to Live Without You   (3:53)   wild life & nostalgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8yuTqvyFbY

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Foreigner’s Kelly Hansen Surprises Elevator Riders   (2:00)   goofy fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-58jSCdtoc

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Flash Mob
~Sabadel, Spain: Ode To Joy, from Beethoven’s 9th   (5:40)   still the most stirring*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg

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In Colombia
~Mendelssohn:  Farewell of the Woods   (3:10)   choral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeUiKij5xIg

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~Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, the crescendo   (4:48)   youth orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rGSSlNwUa8

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Time of My Life   (6:53)   drama, dance, acrobatics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYnCxD4cf4s

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Uyghur: A culture being absorbed
~Uyghur Beauty:  Mitiz Meshrep   (5:11)   Uyghur instruments, singer and dancers (it’s the music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hef5OXHr5I

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~Uyghur Beauty:  Liwen Yarlar   (6:05)   colorful village life and love story (it’s the story)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k6h_MUMAmc

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Classics reimagined
~HaoStaff Official:  Pachelbel’s Canon in D   (3:30)   a commercial featuring tears, Japanese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceX5jJ5fggs

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~Openfire:  Flight Of The Bumblebee   (4:08)   traditional Chinese instruments vs classical western*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQS26W3QmfI

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Instruments
~Anoushka Shankar:  Traveler, feat. Odissi dancer   (4:29)   playing sitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PfRSr0F9eM

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~Wuauquikuna:  The Sound Of Silence   (4:54)   playing pan flutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndUCNnhH03Q

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~Bill Withers:  Lean On Me
~Flash Mob – London   (3:40)   people you would know in full voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKnqMekWx8

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~Playing For Change:   (4:33)   international
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiouJsnYytI

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We Are The World
~Somos El Mundo  (We Are The World)   (6:45)   bilingual stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdMVLAlUbjU

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~Channel Aid w/ Kurt Hugo Schneider & You Tube Artists   (5:10)   donated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jKnuc6XqgQ

*reprised

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It’s these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.
~Katie Couric

The heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at.
~Jack Gilbert

They’ve got a wall in China, it’s a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I’ve got a wall around me that you can’t even see.
~Paul Simon

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
~Criss Jami

Trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she’d studied all too briefly.
~Cassandra Clare

If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.
~Lisa Kleypas

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
~V S Pritchett

When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but has no idea what it means. He only knows that it sounds pretty.
~Roy L Pickering, Jr

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People have always taken photos of themselves, either with camera timers or by handing their Nikons over to strangers in foreign countries and then paying large sums to get them back.
~Meghan Daum

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: “To hell with you. Offensive letter follows.”
~William Safire

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, ‘You must be joking.’
~Pat Paulsen

A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: “You don’t seem smart enough to be so good at what you’re doing. Do you have an explanation?”
~Charlie Munger

There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.
~Douglas Adams

Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, ‘Where’s your haggis?’ and the Fijan would sigh and say, ‘Where’s your missionary?’
~Mark Twain

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man’s needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.
~Mark Twain

I can understand why mankind hasn’t given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners – two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
~P J O’Rourke

A standing army is like a standing member. It’s an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.
~Elbridge Gerry

Women feel like we’re fat if we can’t wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.
~Gina Barreca

Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead.
~Dave Barry

Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said “I do, and I also wash and iron them.” I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
~Mae West

Bill Clinton’s foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
~Pat Buchanan

It’s simply not true that Donald Trump has no experience in foreign affairs. Hell, two of his foreign affairs resulted in marriages!
~Michael R Burch

On Fox News, Donald Trump said Obama’s birth certificate could indicate that he’s a Muslim. Trump said he doesn’t trust anyone with a foreign-sounding name, and neither does his daughter Ivanka.
~Conan O’Brien

Ever since her trip with Alexia to Scotland, Mrs. Tunstell had rather a taste for foreign travel. Alexia blamed it on the kilts.
~Gail Carriger

Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
~George Carlin

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it’s on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.
~Roman Polanski

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?
~Robert Orben

I’m convinced there’s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer
~Peter Ustinov

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.
~Erma Bombeck

Foreign newspapers: if they’ve got nothing to hide, how come they don’t print them in English?
~Stephen Colbert

People are always asking me in interviews, ‘What do you think of foreign affairs?’ I just say, ‘I’ve had a few.’
~Dolly Parton

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?
~Frederick Forsyth

The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents.
~Chelsea Handler

England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.
~Dave Barry

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
~Fabrice Luchini

I couldn’t settle in Italy – it was like living in a foreign country. ~Ian Rush

My wife wants something foreign for Christmas – like a Mexican divorce.
~Milton Berle

I’ve only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.
~Larry the Cable Guy

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
~Cormac McCarthy

English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman’s apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.
~Bill Bryson

I believe only foreigners should run for president…Face it, the presidency is a lousy job. And who does lousy jobs we don’t want anymore better than foreigners?
~Bill Maher

In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers.
~Dave Barry

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
~Terry Pratchett

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
~Mark Twain

There’s the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a checkbook.
~Will Rogers

A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.
~Jackie Mason

I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language… Apache.
~Steve Martin

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© David N Sachs

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When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner.
~Emma Goldman

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
~Michel de Montaigne

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?
~Victor Hugo

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
~Victor Hugo

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.
~Glenn T Seaborg

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
~George Bernard Shaw

In my experience, those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied. For them, war is opportunity, not hardship or sorrow. After all, it is rarely their sons who lie in unmarked graves on foreign soil.
~C S Harris

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.
~Ernest Becker

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The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key and bolt the door at once.
~Andrew Jackson

It’s much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch successful attacks against foreign adversaries.
~Edward Snowden

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
~Franklin D Roosevelt

Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security.
~Theodore C Sorensen

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
~Goethe

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
~Bertolt Brecht

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I’d become a terrorist, too. I’d go to war against the U.S.
~Jesse Ventura

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
~William Pitt

Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.
~Amira Hass

In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.
~Arthur Ekirch

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@Writers Platform:

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
~Willa Cather

NOTE:  It is for this above-listed travesty that this editor pleads guilty. Because of an impious need (the creative imperative), he has chosen to continue in his sinful ways

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The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent…there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.
~Virginia Woolf

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it
~Joseph Addison

Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?
~Leonardo da Vinci

Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lifting me up when I’m at the end of my strength.
~Roberto Bolano

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Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
~Marcel Proust

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
~Ross MacDonald

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can’t tell what’s being said. It’s like you ruin it by reading.
~Craig Thompson

I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It’s like being someone else.
~J M G Le Clezio

Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.
~Elizabeth Knox

When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.
~J Courtney Sullivan

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Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
~Ray Bradbury

The bookworm, the foreign-looking one with the dark, close set eyes and the Roman nose, who had never been sought after or cherished; who had always been left alone, to read.
~Michael Cunningham

Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
~Octavio Paz

Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.
~Stephanie Perkins

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn’t make much sense in the post-colonial world.
~Robyn Davidson

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I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
~Mark Haddon

There’s something with the physical size of America… American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
~Mark Haddon

There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I’m uneasily somewhere in the middle.
~Pankaj Mishra

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
~Edward Abbey

It’s very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I’m being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
~V S Pritchett

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
~James Buchan

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It’s not all inspirational.
~James M Cain

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.
~John le Carre

Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I’ve always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.
~Thomas Friedman

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Prewritten Prompt:  foreign

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There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign accent, whatever her origin.
~Carole Nelson Douglas

How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, ‘I’m going to the store,’ it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it’s said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
~Rachel Nichols

Everybody loves an accent. It you’ve been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you’ll be the one with a neat foreign accent.
~Marilyn vos Savant

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.
~Orson Scott Card

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The Exercise:

Dual Doggerels Dueling

Patriotic

“Effete nattering nabobs of negativity”
The shows: Batchelor, Sex In The City
Wed to history claim their privilege
Blind to nature, fail their heritage
Ignore the needs of productivity

Few to labor work all day
Sent home late with little pay
Shops grow empty needing buyers
Tax collectors become decriers
Nations fail, gone stale, decay

It’s not country but self they love
Selves not future they’re thinking of
Competition their hymn’s rendition
Held-hostage foreigns their tradition
Sacred role straight from God above

Time and labor, love intensive
Kids distracting, too expensive
Pending fertile trending sterile
Pretending virile extending peril
Obstetric science turning pensive

Protected sex that features three-ples
Polluted world set free of peoples
Sex-free fasting, skin-hungry troubles
Make Love posters that foster couples
Foreign chapels boast priapic steeples

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Decline/d

Exploited victims third world slavery
Visionary dreamers versus knavery
Sires gone seedless man nation’s future
Yet sirens pledge their fruitful natures
Desperate races forced to bravery

Stranded futures wait new orders
Hope to honor foresight’s rewarders
No way to grow, no earning’s taxes
While fresh ideas meet with axes
Foreign answers line our borders

…hiding in plain sight

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5s ‘n 7s

Coliseum Wars

my cuntry rite or…
now you jus’ wate a minut
danged forun wusses
my cuntry ain’t never rong

owr histry don’t lie
reel ‘Muricans carry guns
settle things final
make ‘Murica grate agin

gunfites ‘n street kills
vengince rades, ambush wackin
‘n jus piss me off
my book, best reeson enuf

wun ded on th’ street
my ver’fyed qwalifyne round
my paybak punch’ment
killers die, sayv tax, mayk cash

Rome’s gladhe8her?
entertanemint capistol
o’ the freakin’ wirld
gon’ let us broots shoot it out

Coliseum Wars
@Battlefield Arena
sez th’ noosepayper
Real red blood turns white sand brown

cain’t Endgame yerself
sumwun elz pulls yer triggur
thums up ‘r thums down
i kills ’em all enyway

kills ain’t no crym heer
stawkin’ deth in cowboy boots
2 left, last round next
The Duel, i’m gon’ be faymus

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redolent incense
malodorous pollution
colorful spices
taste of rage and raw anger
foreign vs alien

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base fear of the truth
not sort-of but in full fact
failed their sworn duties
voted foreign loyalties
faithless, sold their country out

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foreign affection
brindle bitch by description
wags a pure welcome

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all gods’ foreigns cry
learn to love, laugh in motley
but hearts break the same

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standing apart from
other places’ pride of race,
lies foreign to US

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The French woman says, ‘I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.’
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
~Edmund White

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It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.
~John Henrik Clarke

The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.
~Isabella Thoburn

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
~Carl Jung

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.
~Randolph Bourne

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I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one’s decency, can be called clothes. … Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife’s body.
~Seneca the Younger

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
~Hank Azaria

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I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.
~Joseph Epstein

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What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you’re born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from “away” and start being from “here”?
~Blue Balliett

So, here you are too foreign for home too foreign for here. Never enough for both.
~Ijeoma Umebinyuo

The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain forever like a mirage in his mind.
~Brian Aldiss

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.
~Alfred Polgar

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It’s still hard to live in a foreign country with unfamiliar people, even when you’re with the person you love. I don’t have any roots or history of my own here. A person needs their history around them to remember who they were and to remind them of where they’re going. I’m worried about leaving my history and memories behind me.
~Alex Z Moores

My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality.
~Ken Watanabe

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To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.
~Joseph Devlin

Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.
~Diadochos of Photiki

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Life is a journey through a foreign land.
~O R Melling

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
~Christopher Morley

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A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.
~John Steinbeck

The South is like a foreign country to me!
~Richard LaGravenese

What is there to see in Europe? I’ll bet those foreigners can’t show us a thing we haven’t got right here in Georgia.
~Margaret Mitchell

A nation…is just a society for hating foreigners.
~Olaf Stapledon

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Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.
~Vera Nazarian

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
~Clifton Fadiman

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

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Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

I’ve seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that’s hard for me to take.
~Billy Corgan

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Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
~Bill Vaughan

The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?
~John Rocker

America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance.
~Jay Severin

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.
~David Sedaris

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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
~Eric Hoffer

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.
~Mark Steyn

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The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.
~Marya Mannes

The people of America, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners.
~Pope Francis

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Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures… My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn’t be the same.
~Masiela Lusha

The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that’s defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.
~Juan Goytisolo

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I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.
~Neil Gaiman

Laughter has no foreign accent.
~Paul B Lowney

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery.
~Amy Chua

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