Speak Quotes - Page 32

• To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

  Rita Dove

  Order, Practice, Play

  "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.

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• With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, Trying, Hustle

  "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

  David Duchovny

  Fashion, Intelligent, Views

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• Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

  Alan Dundes

  Inspirational, Funny, Christmas

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• Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

  Leo Durocher

  Player, Games, Clubs

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• I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

  Roger Ebert

  Responsibility, Speaks Out, Ideas

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Speaks Out, People

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Warfare, Use

  Atoms for Peace, delivered 8 December 1953, United Nations General Assembly

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• Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hate, Years, President

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• The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

  Hector Elizondo

  Moving, Hands, Differences

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

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• Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

  Albert Ellis

  Flying, Analysts, Let Me

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• Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

  Eminem

  Black And White, Past, Color

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• I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Guy, Hospitality, Hospitals

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

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• I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

  Dale Evans

  Blessing, Thinking, Bed

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• I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

  Paloma Faith

  Levels, Accents, Intellect

  "Paloma Faith: 'I get mocked for my accent'" by Sophie Hines, www.digitalspy.com. April 19, 2011.

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• I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.

  Brett Favre

  Thinking, Years, Green

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• I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.

  Will Ferrell

  Couple, School, College

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• Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to - he's not going to come take out our garbage, so to speak. He can't be the garbage man and the president. He can't be the mayor and the alderman. He can't fill all those roles. So I always push for local, local activity on the political scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Men, Political, President

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• In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Strong, School, Kids

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I have a lot of faith in President Obama. The thing that seems to be true of him is that he doesn't speak when you would expect him to speak. He's very measured in his response to things. He likes to get all the facts first before he shoots his mouth off. It makes me crazy; it makes a lot of people crazy.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Crazy, People, President

  "Harvey Fierstein Opens Up About His Fiery Op-Ed on Russia's Anti-Gay Campaign". Interview with Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 22, 2013.

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• Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

  Jane Fonda

  Mentor, Looks, Conferences

  "The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Want, Sticks, Bigs

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• I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

  Jodie Foster

  Couple, Wish, Language

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• If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

  Jodie Foster

  Successful, Two, People

  "Jodie Foster On 'The Beaver' and Making Personal Films". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2011.

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• The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

  Al Franken

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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