Speech Quotes
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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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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
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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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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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There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
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A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
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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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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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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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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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I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint.
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My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.
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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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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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Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.
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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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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.
