Speakers Quotes - Page 3

• Headphone aren't big enough these days. Why not just throw a couple of stereo speakers in a full face motorcycle helmet.

  Dov Davidoff

  Couple, Motorcycle, Why Not

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• The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  "Salon" Interview with Dwight Garner, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

  John Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

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• Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Glowing, Experience, Audience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.77, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by historian James Kloppenberg should therefore fascinate anyone interested in American politics or how ideas shape public life. Tracing the influences of Obama's family, educational, and work experiences on his ideas, Reading Obama locates a unique individual in the crosscurrents of American democracy and continuing fights over American ideals.

  Martha Minow

  Country, Powerful, Educational

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• You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

  Drew Houston

  Want, Great Men, Clock

  "DropBox CEO Drew Houston Explains How To Become A Leader Quickly" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 6, 2013.

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• I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.

  Dominique Dawes

  Athlete, Years, People

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• Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

  Milton Berle

  Education, Teaching, Promise

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• I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.

  Larry Trask

  Firsts, Mets, First Time

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• Many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential. So whether you get your hair done less or your hair cut less, or your nails done less, as a writer and a speaker I was very clear that corporations weren't being as open and as generous and I wasn't getting the kind of work that I usually got.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Cutting, Hair, Self

  "After Suffering Loss, Iyanla Vanzant Starts Over". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Writing, Worry, Sound

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• I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a great example. Same goes for Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, Warrior, Thinking

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln. He used to go to a pub near where he lived and stand in front of the fire and he packed the place every night and he would just talk and bust everybody in their guts. He was just a hilarious speaker and that’s what he did.

  Louis C. K.

  Night, America, Fire

  "Quint chats with the Hilarious Louis C.K.!". Interview with Eric Vespe, www.aintitcool.com. January 31, 2010.

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• What is the point of a car alarm if it doesn't get people out of their beds to come help you? So if I ever have a car alarm - if I ever have a car - it's just going to be a big speaker on the back of my car. And when anybody tries to break in, it's just gonna go: Attention! Free bags of weed! Come get your free bags of weed!

  Christian Finnegan

  Weed, People, Car

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• I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

  George Bernard Shaw

  World, Gestures, Spontaneous

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• No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

  Ira Hayes

  Women, Complaining, Speech

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• I did a club one night - the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white.

  J. B. Smoove

  Black And White, Night, Clubs

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• He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

  Charles Churchill

  Oratory, Mouths, Bones

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.51

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• I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

  Adolf Hitler

  Winning, People, Movement

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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• Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Funny, Sorry, Liars

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• If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have the right mental attitude. If the right people aren't always available, then go the right book, or to the right recording of a dynamic speaker.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Book, People

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.226, Pelican Publishing

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• The show is coming from the music. I get on the stage with the band, and I communicate with my musicians, and the music that we create and all that is coming out of us. The music is making the show and the music is creating the atmosphere, so if you close your eyes and listen and feel what it is that's coming out of the speakers, that's the whole point.

  D'Angelo

  Eye, Atmosphere, Musician

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• I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Song, Regret, Thinking

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• The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Style, Oratory

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

  Mike Gordon

  Cabinets, Built

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