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I had to know at least two languages.

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

I know what the structure of the language is.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

Language is memory and metaphor.