Speak Quotes - Page 39

• Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

  Henri Poincare

  Business, Clouds, Ideas

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• In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

  Roman Polanski

  Paris, Car, Matter

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

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• Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

  John Polkinghorne

  Inquiry, Problem, Mills

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• I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

  Natalie Portman

  Dream, Years, Hebrew

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• The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Thinking, Doctors

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• Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mind, Female, Three

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• Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

  Dennis Prager

  Writing, Inappropriate, Occasional

  "A Letter to Young Voters" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 17, 2012.

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• He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

  Quintilian

  Opportunity, Evil, Doe

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• It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Girl, Logic, Evidence

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• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Speaks Out, People, Choices

  "Cartoon conflicts" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2006.

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• Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

  Keanu Reeves

  Live Your Life, Going Away, Months

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• Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

  Little Richard

  Sister, Brother, Children

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• If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

  Julia Roberts

  Long, Interesting, Would Be

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• I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.

  Pat Robertson

  America, Looks, Likes

  "Robertson: Jihad at heart of Islam". Interview with Martin Savidge, www.cnn.com. November 26, 2002.

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• We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Doe, Littles

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 137, 1678.

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• Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Mind, Dare

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• We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ill, Egotism

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 138, 1678.

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• I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

  Nile Rodgers

  Thinking, Judging Yourself, Overcoming

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• Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

  Mitt Romney

  Hands, Mind Freedom, Essence

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

  Richard Rorty

  Doe, World, Causes

  Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

  Hans Rosling

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

  Eli Roth

  Speaks Out, Firsts, Backlash

  "Eli Roth 'Furious' Over 'Hostel' Pirates". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 17, 2007.

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• Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Lying, Self

  "I'm returning to India, deal with it - Salman Rushdie to NDTV". Interview with Barkha Dutt, www.ndtv.com. January 25, 2012.

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• We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

  Paul Ryan

  Feet, People, Safety

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• Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Cutting, Long, People

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