Speak Quotes - Page 31

• The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

  Hillary Clinton

  Europe, Political, Needs

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• As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

  Hillary Clinton

  Government, Records, Tactics

  Newseum Address on Internet Freedom, delivered 21 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Communication, Chocolate

  Interview with Elizabeth Peyton, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

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• Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fall, Writing, Play

  Vogue Magazine, May 1983.

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• Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

  Diablo Cody

  World, Blogging, Talent

  "Diablo Cody's tips for blogging your way to Hollywood success" by John Scott Lewinski, www.wired.com. November 16, 2007.

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• It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.

  Phil Collins

  Couple, Rocks, Months

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• Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Mean, Literature

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• Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Eye, People, Nightmare

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

  William Congreve

  Believe, Suffering, Criticism

  'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 1, sc. 1

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• Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.

  Billy Connolly

  Dark, People, Want

  "My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.

  Billy Connolly

  Thinking, People, Citizens

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• I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.

  Billy Connolly

  Art, Two, People

  "My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

  Mason Cooley

  Mother, Listening, Literature

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• Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Patriotic, Men, Rights

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

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• As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Mother, Brother

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• You can't speak for the people unless you're able to walk amongst the people. And how many of these rappers out here actually hang out with regular people?

  DMX

  Rapper, People, Able

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• First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

  Dorothy Day

  Firsts, Conspiracy, Communist

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• I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Way, Personal Life

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2010.

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• I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Real, Insecure, Musician

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• If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Country, Speak English, Eight

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• The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Language

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• I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mother, Children, Book

  "Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of Glasgow Nov. 19, 1873".

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• A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Careers, Two

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.836, Delphi Classics

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• If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

  Kirk Douglas

  Terrified, Ifs

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