Speak Quotes - Page 37

• For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

  Moby

  War, Speaks Out, Iraq

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• Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Fire, Males

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• If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thinking, People, Ordinary

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• Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thinking, Shame, Candor

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• I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.

  Cory Monteith

  Speaks French

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

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• I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

  Mandy Moore

  Mom, College, Blood

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• Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

  Michael Moore

  People, Ignorant, World

  "Nicht ganz Amerika ist verrückt" by Michael Moore, www.zeit.de. November 6, 2003.

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• I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

  Roger Moore

  Home, Littles, Asking

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• Do your own thing. Speak in your voice.

  Dylan Moran

  Voice

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• I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Heart, Italian, Matter

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• I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.

  Aimee Mullins

  Issues, People, Amputees

  "'You just don't look disabled'". Interview with Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2010.

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• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Years, Frustrated, Speech

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• I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

  Rafael Nadal

  Uncles, Chinese, Language

  "Ask Rafa: send a question to Rafael Nadal". The Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. January 31, 2012.

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• I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

  Rafael Nadal

  Kids, Thinking, Media

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• Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

  Horatio Nelson

  Kings, Hate, Men

  Horatio Nelson's advice to his Midshipmen (1793) as quoted in "Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., Duke of Bronte, Etc., Etc., Etc, Volume 2" edited by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (p. 580), 1849.

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• I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Grief, September, Certain

  Benjamin Netanyahu's Speech on the September 11th terrorist attacks, www.aish.com. September 20, 2001.

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• President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Children, Believe, Years

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• In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

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• Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Truth, Lying, Honor

  Nomination acceptance speech, Miami, 8 Aug. 1968, in New York Times 9 Aug. 1968, p. 20

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• To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, People, Age

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• One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dream, Jobs, Fall

  Honorary Degree Recipient Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Dartmouth College Graduates, www.dartmouth.edu. 2011.

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• I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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

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• The truth is that many powerful guys have fooled around while working for the people. Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Warren Harding to name just a few. Grover Cleveland even fathered a child outside of marriage. We all know these things happen. But we don't want them to happen - at least most of us don't. I can't speak for San Francisco.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Powerful, Names

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• I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Artist, Thinking, People

  CNN's Book Chat, www.cnn.com.

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• I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,' I provide a voice for someone who has died and can't speak for herself.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Writing, Voice

  CNN's Book Chat, www.cnn.com.

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