Speech Quotes
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Literature is the immortality of speech.
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You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Freedom of speech means not only freedom for the views with which you agree but also freedom for the views which you hate and deplore.
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When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.
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I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.
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In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.
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Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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I do think we need to allow for there to be room for subversive and ironic speech. We need to be able to put out plays in which we make fun of ourselves or in which we interrogate the words that injure us. And maybe give them another meaning.
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Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.
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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.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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This is a speech we've all heard before. From the con artists who aren't like the burglars, who aren't like the armed robbers, who only ever broke a bone if the victim had it coming and the murderers who made 'one mistake' and are forced to pay for it for the rest of their lives. They want to know what you're doing about the real criminals, the rapists and the paedophiles. Who want to know why you're wasting resources on them when we should be tackling female genital mutilation or political corruption.
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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
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If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.
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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.
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Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover.
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The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.
