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In silence, we craft our certainty--a stillness not of indecision but a canvas awaiting the strokes of righteous choice.
Author:
Elena Michalski
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In the spontaneous exchange of thoughts, shadows dance in some misunderstood streets, turning sidelong glances into shapes forged from mushroomed possibilities; each exchange pulling at the threads binding strangers into friends labels fortified only by meaning itself.
Author:
Arlene Serrano
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Whispered courage blooms softly in the cracks of uncertainty, revealing inner strength when silence feels most heavy.
Author:
Vihaan Trent
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In the silence that hangs between words, the most profound truths stir, gaining a magnetic pull that only the heart truly understands.
Author:
Talia Juniper
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Enough silence houses unexpected truths that flow in conversation's pause, revealing unraveled layers that monotony can't unfold.
Author:
Evelyn Santiago
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In each passing conversation, we discover echoes of a deeper humanity--connections as temporary fireflies that illuminate the dance of understanding.
Author:
Jade Meriwether
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Our stumbled words carve deeper landscapes; in messy silence filtering golden truths only the heart can articulate.
Author:
Amelia Clarke
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Imperfect diction harmonizes the heart, revealing truths no polished expression could grasp, a true testament to authenticity in existence.
Author:
Elara Monroe
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Within the stutter of exposure, we uncover fragile truths that polished statements often strangle.
Author:
Siona Keller
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Sometimes, it's the stammer and pause that weave the essence of our truth, creating symphonies unheard in polished words.
Author:
Ava Richards
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Sometimes the longing in pause holds more beauty than the following pale words -- imperfections breathe life into questions unasked.
Author:
Ilana Fairleigh
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Wisdom is knowing not to speak when your words may harm others.
Author:
Lily Nguyen
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Wisdom is not in the words we speak, but in the actions we take.
Author:
Sofia Rodriguez
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Author:
Zhuang Zi
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The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.
Author:
Pete Wilson
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I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
Author:
Jason Wiles
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
Author:
Bradley Whitford
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
Author:
Auberon Waugh
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Author:
George Washington
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Author:
Voltaire
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There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.
Author:
Henry Villard
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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Author:
Mark Twain
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Author:
Martin Tupper
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Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Author:
Richard Trench
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
Author:
A. Taylor
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Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Author:
Wislawa Szymborska
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Speech is the mirror of the soul.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
Author:
John Synge
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In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.
Author:
Harry Stanton
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I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
Author:
Harry Stanton
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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
Author:
Konstantin Stanislavisky
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Speech happens to not be his language.
Author:
Madame Stael
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Author:
Robert South
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Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
Author:
Sophocles
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Author:
Sophocles
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Author:
Sophocles
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Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
Author:
Stephen Sondheim
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Speech is the mirror of action.
Author:
Solon
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Author:
Adam Smith
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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Author:
Alan Simpson
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Author:
George Shaw
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Author:
George Shaw
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Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.
Author:
Jay Sekulow
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You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.
Author:
Jay Sekulow
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We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
Author:
Luke Scott
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We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.
Author:
Tom Scholz
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Literature is the immortality of speech.
Author:
August Schlegel
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The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
Author:
George Savile
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
Author:
Ferdinand Saussure
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
Author:
Ferdinand Saussure
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One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.
Author:
Fritz Sauckel
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I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!
Author:
Pat Sajak
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Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Author:
William Safire
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Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.
Author:
Geoffrey Rush
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The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
Author:
Boyle Roche
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Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
Author:
Antoine Rivarol
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
Author:
Ralph Richardson
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Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
Author:
Jef Richards
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Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.
Author:
Jef Richards
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In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.
Author:
Jef Richards
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The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
Author:
Kenneth Rexroth
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I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
Author:
Mary Retton
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I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
Author:
Dave Reichert
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Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
Author:
Jean Rameau
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
Author:
John Powell
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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
Author:
Dennis Potter
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Author:
Plutarch
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Author:
Harold Pinter
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Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.
Author:
Emo Philips
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Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Author:
Laurence Peter
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Author:
William Penn
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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Author:
Norman Peale
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Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
Author:
George Pataki
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U.S.A. is the speech of the people.
Author:
John Passos
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He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Author:
Saskya Pandita
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And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.
Author:
Robert Owen
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
Author:
Ovid
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
Author:
William Osler
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Author:
George Orwell
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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
Author:
Peggy Noonan
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A great speech is literature.
Author:
Peggy Noonan
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I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
Author:
Peggy Noonan
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The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Author:
Sarojini Naidu
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Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Author:
Frank Murphy
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Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.
Author:
Johann Most
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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
Author:
John Mortimer
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Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.
Author:
Al Michaels
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Speech is the small change of silence.
Author:
George Meredith
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Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
Author:
Robert Menzies
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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
Author:
Felix Mendelssohn
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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
Author:
Leo McKern
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Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
Author:
John McGahern
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I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
Author:
Colleen McCullough
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But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
Author:
John McCain
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But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
Author:
Anne McCaffrey
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I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.
Author:
Marlee Matlin
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The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.
Author:
Marlee Matlin
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Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
Author:
Richard Masur
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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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Speech is civilization itself.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.
Author:
Nong Manh
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Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
Author:
Joanna Lumley
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
Author:
Mark Lloyd
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In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
Author:
George Lewes
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Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
Author:
Shane Leslie
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A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.
Author:
Shane Leslie
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I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.
Author:
Thomas Lennon
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
Author:
James Laughlin
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George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.
Author:
Bela Kun
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Author:
Soren Kierkegaard
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Author:
Soren Kierkegaard
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A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
Author:
Jean Kerr
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I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.
Author:
Charles Keating
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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
Author:
June Jordan
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When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
Author:
James Jones
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You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
Author:
Franklin Jones
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Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
Author:
George Jessel
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
Author:
Roman Jakobson
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The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
Author:
Roman Jakobson
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It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.
Author:
Ernest Istook
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The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.
Author:
Daniel Inouye
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And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
Author:
David Icke
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Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.
Author:
Muriel Humphrey
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Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
Author:
Brit Hume
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A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
Author:
Kurt Huber
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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
Author:
Kin Hubbard
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I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
Author:
Tom Hooper
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Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'
Author:
Tom Hooper
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In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.
Author:
Tom Hooper
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What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'
Author:
Tom Hooper
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I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
Author:
Tobe Hooper
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'
Author:
Jim Hightower
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So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Author:
Hesiod
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Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Author:
Hesiod
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
Author:
Herodotus
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Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
Author:
Keith Henson
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My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
Author:
Seamus Heaney
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
Author:
Ira Hayes
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Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.
Author:
Dennis Hastert
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Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
Author:
Debbie Harry
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On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.
Author:
Julie Harris
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Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
Author:
Alice Hamilton
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I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
Author:
John Hall
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Author:
Susan Griffin
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Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
Author:
Kenneth Grahame
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And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.
Author:
Thomas Goodwin
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What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
Author:
Dick Gephardt
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Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.
Author:
George George III
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You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
Author:
Bob Geldof
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
Author:
Gareth Gates
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
Author:
John Galbraith
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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
Author:
Neil Gaiman
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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
Author:
Neil Gaiman
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The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
Author:
Neil Gaiman
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Author:
Brendan Francis
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I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
Author:
Gene Fowler
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When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
Author:
Gerald Ford
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Author:
Gustave Flaubert
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
Author:
F. Fitzgerald
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We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.
Author:
Albert Finney
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Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
Author:
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
Author:
Federico Fellini
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I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
Author:
Jules Feiffer
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Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
Author:
William Feather
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Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
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Louis Farrakhan
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Author:
Clifton Fadiman
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When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.
Author:
Susan Estrich
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Silence is safer than speech.
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Epictetus
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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
Author:
Nora Ephron
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I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
Author:
Brian Eno
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I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Author:
Eminem
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I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
Author:
Roger Ebert
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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Author:
Max Eastman
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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Author:
Jimmy Durante
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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
Author:
Dogen
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
Author:
E. Doctorow
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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
Author:
Annie Dillard
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Author:
Demosthenes
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Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.
Author:
Dom DeLuise
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I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
Author:
Stockwell Day
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The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised.
Author:
Ron Davies
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He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
Author:
Richard Darman
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As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.
Author:
Judge Dalzell
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Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.
Author:
Judge Dalzell
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Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
Author:
Larry Craig
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I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.
Author:
Ann Coulter
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The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
Author:
Ann Coulter
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I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
Author:
Francis Coppola
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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Author:
Confucius
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Author:
Confucius
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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.
Author:
John Colville
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Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.
Author:
William Clifford
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I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.
Author:
Brian Cleary
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Author:
Chanakya
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.
Author:
Eric Cantor
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From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.
Author:
Patrick Campbell
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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Michael Caine
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People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.
Author:
George Bush
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I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.
Author:
Leo Burnett
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Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.
Author:
Delta Burke
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Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
Author:
Deborah Bull
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Author:
Buddha
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In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.
Author:
James Buckley
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One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional amendment subjecting political speech, if not pornography, to government regulation.
Author:
James Buckley
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Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
Author:
James Buckley
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As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
Author:
James Buckley
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
Author:
William Bryan
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
Author:
H. Brown, Jr.
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In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?
Author:
Scott Brown
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
Author:
Harold Brodkey
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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
Author:
Allan Bloom
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Author:
Ingrid Bergman
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I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
Author:
Candice Bergen
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Author:
Roland Barthes
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Author:
Gaston Bachelard
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Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.
Author:
Joe Baca
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
Author:
J. Austin
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Author:
Margaret Atwood
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I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.
Author:
Julian Assange
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Author:
Aristotle
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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In the spaces between words, where chaos falters, silence unleashes sincerity--beckoning depth beneath discourse's surface.
Author:
Clara Handsworth
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While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
Author:
David Antin
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In silence lies the profound thunder of understanding; it beckons true wisdom into vulnerable voices.
Author:
Jefferson Daren
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I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
Author:
Kenneth Anger
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The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.
Author:
Debbie Allen
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Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
Author:
Samuel Alito
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As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.
Author:
Kamal Ahmed
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Author:
Aeschylus
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
Author:
Floyd Abrams
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
Author:
Floyd Abrams
