Speak Quotes
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Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.
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As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.
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I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.
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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.
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Speak low, if you speak love.
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Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.
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No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth
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I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.
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My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.
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But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.
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What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.
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To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.
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Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.
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I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.
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Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.
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I`d like to address the people of Flint. Your families face a crisis. A crisis you did not create and could not have prevented. I want to speak directly, honestly and sincerely to let you know we are praying for you, we are working hard for you, and we are absolutely committed to taking the right steps to effectively solve this crisis.
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Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
