Speak Quotes
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You may be right in believing that if you study hard, one day you might become fluent in English. But you will still look Chinese, and when people meet you, they’ll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English. You’ll always be expected to know Chinese, and if you don’t, I’m afraid they will not respect you as much.
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A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.
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I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.
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Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants and of the terrible suffering of beautiful princesses, it holds its head up and its eyes open; but if the mother begins to speak of happiness and sunshine, the little one closes its eyes and falls asleep with its head against her breast. . . . I am a child like that, too. Others may like stories of flowers and sunshine; but I choose the dark nights and sad destinies.
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From this day forward, speak to yourself in a way that you would someone you care about.
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Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more.
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Think good, speak good and do good, to bring about positive change in the world.
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I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk
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I hope white brothers and sisters read this book.Tears we cannot stop and engage with it, but other white people have a better chance of speaking more directly to the white folk they know, because they're less likely to be subject to ridicule. They're insiders, so to speak.
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In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.
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To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.
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Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn't bad... I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing. But it's become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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The Divine incarnates only in the individual -He or It overshadows the group. The supreme responsibility always lies with the individual. At the exact moment, in the most definite manner Destiny acts and speaks though the individual.
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Okay. I've got three. Which one would you like to speak to first?
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We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.
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People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are repressive are often at threat.
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.
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It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.
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Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.
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I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.
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I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make the headlines. These are people who have felt that their sense - their grief, their sense of injustice has been compounded by a system that just doesn't work, that just doesn't listen to victims, that effectively disempowers them all too often.
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All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.
