Speak Quotes - Page 33

• It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

  Fred Frith

  Vocabulary, Doe, Body

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• The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.

  David Frum

  Media, President, Events

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• He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friends, Behind My Back, Wells

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• I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

  Andy Garcia

  Play, Way, Jazz

  "Cuba, Cognac, and Cachao with Andy Garcia". Interview with Allyson Shiffman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.

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• 'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.

  Kevin Garnett

  Fighting, Games, Play

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• German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Beautiful, People, Sound

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• I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Opposites, Friendly, Want

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. June 7, 2007.

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• People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Hate, Real, Pie

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

  Jean Genet

  Suicide, Suicidal, Fascination

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

  Geronimo

  Sleep, Wind, People

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• When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

  Billy Graham

  Speaks Out, Issues, Race

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• That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.

  Robert Griffin III

  Goal, Trying, Talent

  "Robert Griffin III refuses to be defined by race" by Jim Corbett, www.usatoday.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

  Steve Hackett

  Song, Thinking, Long

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• At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

  Mark Haddon

  Jobs, Children, Fiction

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

  William Hague

  Powerful, Rights, Freedom Of Speech

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• The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

  William Hague

  Home, People, Giving

  William Hague's Speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2001.

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• There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

  Conrad Hall

  Jobs, Light, Color

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• A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.

  Geri Halliwell

  Children, Thinking, Voice

  "This much I know". Interview with with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2008.

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• Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

  Sam Harris

  Crazy, Buddhism, Thinking

  "A Contemplative Science" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2006.

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• To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.

  Sam Harris

  Talking, Civilization, Islam

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• I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

  Salma Hayek

  Passion, Speak English, United States

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September, 2003.

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• My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

  Salma Hayek

  Speak English, Long, Mexico

  "Oprah Talks to Salma Hayek". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September 2003.

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• An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

  William Hazlitt

  Truth, Men, Order

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.139

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• Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

  William Hazlitt

  Spiritual, Alive, Ill

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• My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

  Seamus Heaney

  Scotland, Speech, Northern Ireland

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