Voice Quotes
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The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.
Fletcher Knebel
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When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of using my voice to bring ideas across became more complicated, and I felt I could use it more as an expressive tool.
M. Ward
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I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.
Odilon Redon
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud
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I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
Elia Kazan
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When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, "Richard, what do you see?" I said, "I see all types of people." The voice said, "But do you see any niggers?" I said, "No." It said, "Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any."
Richard Pryor
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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
Alan Rickman
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I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.
Billy Joel
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I guess, as an Emanuel, I have a voice that carries.
Ezekiel Emanuel
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[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.
Quentin S. Crisp
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The feeling is more important than getting everything perfect - a voice crack, whatever, If the feeling’s there, it’s better.
Trevor Daniel
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Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.
Sigmund Freud
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We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
Rumi
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To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.
Barack Obama
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Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
Colleen McCullough
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Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn’t sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.
Margaret Mitchell
