Speak Quotes - Page 13

• I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I'm desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I'm going back, but I'm not. I'd rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.

  Billy Connolly

  Thinking, Scotland, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The First Amendment gives all of us - it gives it to me, it gives it to you, it gives all Americans - the right to speak our minds freely. It gives you the right and me the right to criticize fake news, and criticize it strongly.

  Donald Trump

  Giving, Fake, Mind

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records of poets, I think this is a wonderful thing. I'm very excited by it. In a sense, there's a return, isn't there, to the old role of the poet, which was to speak to a group of people, to come across.

  Sylvia Plath

  Reading, Thinking, People

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It's like I got a job now. They say that for those that know you got to deal in equality. If you know and you don't speak on it and don't apply it, it's like you're the worst hypocrite. I feel I got a job to do, being that I study so much and I believe in Allah like I do, I feel like I got to spread the word.

  Rakim

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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• Keep an eye on the weather, which is changing faster than predicted, and on the new diseases escaping or being made, even as we speak. It's a race between new tech and biosphere bankruptcy, I'd say.

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Race, Escaping

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The dramatically different manner in which we, as a nation, responded to the crisis presented by drunk driving and the crisis caused by the emergence of crack cocaine speaks volumes about who we value, and who we view as disposable.

  Michelle Alexander

  Views, Drunk, Different

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Play, Series

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Thinking, Library

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find out that this thing that you don't even know how to do, that you're sure you don't know how to do, speaks to so many people and touches so many people in some way.

  Judy Blume

  People, Way, Surprise

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Why am I voting for Obama? Obama, of all the candidates, is the only one of the major candidates - even more than Hillary Clinton, when they were running against each other - to speak in favor of the defense of the Constitution and the separation of powers.

  Naomi Wolf

  Running, Voting, Defense

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I spend most of my time speaking to people who totally disagree with me. I speak to gays, I speak to atheists, I speak to secularists, I speak to Muslims because I am trying to build a bridge between my heart and theirs so Jesus can walk across and they can come to know Christ.

  Rick Warren

  Atheist, Jesus, Heart

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• In the States, you have the First Amendment. People feel the freedom to speak and the right to be heard. And they kind of push the message: "It's a free country." Everybody has the right to say whatever they want to say. But in the Middle East, culture is your guide. You have to ask, is it culturally okay to say something like that? Is it culturally okay, for example, to show a woman giving birth? As Arabs watching such a scene in an American film it's okay, but when it comes to the Arabic context, we're like, "How dare you?" So it's how you present it.

  Mohammed Saeed Harib

  Country, Giving, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• So much of what I am doing in my fiction is just trying to get into interesting places in terms of language or form, places that don't bore me. And this happens via hundreds of quick micro-decisions that are done "to taste," so to speak. So the experience is one of groping toward that interesting place - trying to leap away from anything that seems boring, or about which I don't have strong opinions. Essentially trying to avoid that moment where, devoid of any strong feeling, I start conceptualizing.

  George Saunders

  Strong, Interesting, Decision

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• [Dario Argento] speaks very broken English - he's Italian, so I'm going to do a very bad Italian impersonation - but he asked me my name, and I told him, and he goes, "Walk across the room." He looked at me, and he said, "Do you want to be in my movie [Two Evil Eyes]?" I was, like, "Yeah! Yeah, I do!"He goes, "Okay! You play Betty!" And I was, like, "Oh, I'm playing an extra named Betty! Great!" So we walked out, thinking that I was playing an extra named Betty, no lines, just background.

  Julie Benz

  Eye, Italian, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• At one point in time, you've just got to be a brave soldier, and speak up. What are you scared of, you know? So many of our entertainers have that fear because we're afraid of opposition.

  Steve Harvey

  Brave, Soldier, Scared

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• As an actor, it made me realize a really important lesson. I didn't have to put any spin on the ball as Rita [in Dexter]. All I had to do was speak. And there was such simplicity in that as an actor. With Debra, I was trying to put a square peg into a round hole, and it just didn't work, but in my mind, because I had to work so hard on it, I was, like, "Oh, this is acting!" But that's not acting.

  Julie Benz

  Squares, Simplicity, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think I get really into comfort music: '60s stuff, '50s stuff like Frankie Avalon. I love it - such simple songs, but so well written. That, and old French pop. I love that, because I don't speak French. It's all just pop music! But I love it because it just makes me focus on the melodies.

  Michael Benjamin Lerner

  Song, Thinking, Simple

  "Michael Benjamin Lerner of Telekinesis". Interview With Cory Casciato, music.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• It wasn't necessary to speak on the recession, you know what I mean, but I just though it made a lot of sense. I was like, "okay, cool," I'm going to go with this approach for the name of the album [ The Recession].

  Young Jeezy

  Mean, Names, Albums

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Jordan, Language, Kind

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The music speaks for itself!

  Miles Davis

  Music Speaks

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• We should assume that we all have a lot in common. Speak as if our views are the only sensible ones. This resonates with ordinary people, as long as we speak ordinary language and don't come across as elitists.

  Michael Yates

  Views, Long, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You have to consider all workers as your equals and speak matter of factly about things. People do want to understand things and respect you if you know what they do not know. And you have to respect what they know that you do not.

  Michael Yates

  People, Want, Matter

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I realize after spending so long working with images, semiotic deconstruction and redeployment becomes second nature. We all speak with images. I guess I look at everything sideways nowadays.

  Michael Salu

  Long, Looks, Realizing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Social networks are an incredible new tool which enables me to speak directly to large numbers of people. It is at the cutting edge of personal interaction around the world.

  Helen Zille

  Cutting, Numbers, People

  Source: memeburn.com

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• I think the main thing that we can do as adults helping young people to find the joy in reading, whether we're parents or caregivers or educators, is to come at that subliminally as much as possible and not to make it an issue. The key is to know the individual child and get them materials to read that's going to speak to them best.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Children, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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