Speech Quotes
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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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Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.
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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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It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
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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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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.
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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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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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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover.
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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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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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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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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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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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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
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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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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
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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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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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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.
