Speak Quotes
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When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
Plato
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Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Saint Ignatius
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Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.
Tao Okamoto
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We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life. In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy.
Mother Teresa
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
Adam Green
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
Laura Esquivel
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Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.
J. C. Watts
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I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
Harold Pinter
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
V. S. Naipaul
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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
Adam Johnson
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Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.
Omar Sy
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
Carey Williams
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
K. D. Lang
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Camille Paglia
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I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.
Maelle Gavet
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
Mae West
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
Randy Harrison
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YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY
Florence Scovel Shinn
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
Adam Braun
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I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.
YoungBoy Never Broke Again
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I'm here to pass the baton, so to speak, to some of these new inductees, many of which are guys that I respect in the business as being truly revolutionary.
Nolan Bushnell