Speech Quotes
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If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.
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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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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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Change does not come on thoughts alone; because we have a revolutionary ideology and give speeches on it. It comes because you can change the material conditions of people, and get people to assist in the change, be the mainstay in the change in their conditions.
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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
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Literature is the immortality of speech.
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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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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 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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Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
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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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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.
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Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.
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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
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I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former.
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The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
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One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.
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In any case, Maya's efficiency of speech was extremely helpful in the maintenance of a relationship that I was subconsciously keeping on the knife-edge between casual and serious. She was capable of talking with her eyes and her body, but she mostly chose to use her mouth. I didn't mind this.
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Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.
