Speakers Quotes - Page 16

• When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.

  Cindy Gallop

  Giving, Advertising, Summit

  "Cindy Gallop: it's time to rethink the advertising business" by Chris Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.

  Roland Allen

  Believe, Calling, Moments

  Roland Allen (2016). “Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?”, p.71, Gideon House Books

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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• I'm a motivational speaker.

  Young Jeezy

  Motivational Speakers

  "Jeezy: The Inspiration" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2006.

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• And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eye, Thinking, Names

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• I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

  Jason Newsted

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

  Bill Lipinski

  Illinois, Needs, Mets

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• I am not a public speaker and never will be.

  Heath Ledger

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• All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

  Bernard Pivot

  Gender, Difficulty

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• Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

  Nick Rahall

  Half, Bills, Facts

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• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  Ted Rall

  Confused, Thinking, Fans

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• I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Fighting, Cutting

  "Upton wins House energy gavel" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. December 07, 2010.

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• I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.

  Marco Rubio

  Florida, Majority Leader, Years

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech therapy for three years as a child because I had a lisp; and a slow stiff kid from the suburbs who became an All-Pro in the NFL.

  Karl Mecklenburg

  Dream, Children, Kids

  Karl Mecklenburg (2009). “Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families”, p.40, Greenleaf Book Group

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• Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

  Brad Meltzer

  Eye, President, Eras

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts.

  Greg Lukianoff

  College, Expression, Ideas

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• Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.

  Walter Wangerin

  Sorrow, Littles

  Walter Wangerin (2013). “The Book of the Dun Cow”, p.22, Diversion Books

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• The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

  George Frisbie Hoar

  Desire, Purpose, Way

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• My first love is my mother. She did so much for us as children as a single parent. I watched her make a dollar out of fifteen cents. I thought she was either a magician or she had God's actual phone number. She wasn't a motivational speaker; she was an inspirational speaker.

  Betty Wright

  Mother, Children, First Love

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• "Ladies and Gentlemen, we're about to begin boarding. If we could ask for your cooperation, please stay seated until you row has been called." ... That's what they say - but somehow, by the time it comes out of the speaker, it sounds like, "Everybody up and rush the door! Everybody up and try to squeeze your big fat butts in the small gate door area! Immediately! ... Do whatever you have to do to get on board. This is the last helicopter out of Vietnam!"

  Brian Regan

  Funny, Doors, Gentleman

  Interview with Paul Harris, paulharrisonline.blogspot.ru. May 20, 1996.

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• An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

  M. Scott Peck

  Giving Up, Shoes, Discipline

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• Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

  John Towner Williams

  Teacher, Athlete, School

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• When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

  Paul Goodman

  Speech, Serious, Censorship

  Growing Up Absurd ch. 2 (1960)

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• My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Mother, Technology, Engineering

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• Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.

  Willem Dafoe

  Beach, Fun, Interesting

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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