Speech Quotes
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
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Cisco has never and will never work with a foreign government of any type for the purpose of restricting political speech.
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Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.
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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.
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A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
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I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.
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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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We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
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There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
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Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.
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My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.
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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
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PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
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Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.
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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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Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.
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Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.
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I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.
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Wow, ... If ever there was a time for bipartisanship, I didn't hear it in that last speech.
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Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
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Do not be fooled by one who recites the Quran. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.
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And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.
