Ben Lerner Quotes
I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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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.
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I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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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!
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You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
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I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.
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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.
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By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
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Free speech is one of our fundamental principles and it's pretty hard to speak freely when people are yelling at you when it's your turn. That would never be allowed in a classroom or in any other kind of meeting.
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We're going to listen carefully to what the president has to say and we'll take it from there.
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The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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When I was asked recently if this speech had a title, I said ‘no it does not have a title.
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Those residents who are there should consider leaving unless their presence there is essential, ... British citizens who remain should exercise extreme caution, especially in public places.
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I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.
