Speech Quotes
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A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.
Scott Westerfeld -
We're going to listen carefully to what the president has to say and we'll take it from there.
Jack Straw
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world.
Alison Lurie -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.
Saadi -
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.
Northrop Frye -
There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.
Rudyard Kipling -
Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.
Virginia Madsen
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I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized
H. L. Mencken -
Free speech is one of our fundamental principles and it's pretty hard to speak freely when people are yelling at you when it's your turn. That would never be allowed in a classroom or in any other kind of meeting.
Jack Layton -
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Sophocles -
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
Plato -
Wow, ... If ever there was a time for bipartisanship, I didn't hear it in that last speech.
Chris Shays -
We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.
Frank Hague
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There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
Arthur Ashe -
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
Sophocles -
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
Pythagoras -
I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.
Bill Peterson -
Sarah Palin gave a speech in South Korea. Just what the Koreans needed: Two crazy dictators in fashionable lady's glasses.
Conan O'Brien -
Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
Vladimir Lenin
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While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
Ethan Zuckerman -
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.
Lewis Carroll -
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
Martin Luther -
Free speech not only lives, it rocks!
Oprah Winfrey