Speak Quotes - Page 17

• I've stood in long lines, in the rain and under the sun, just to buy a pack of butter or a box of paper napkins. I've seen mothers running after the corpses of their martyred sons, oblivious to whether their headscarves or their chadors or their stockings and shoes were slipping off or not. I won't say any more. In the light of all this, how did you expect my poetry to be joyful or, as in my recent poem, to speak of love? Even so, more than half of my poetry is joyful and these are the products of the moments when I've felt happy.

  Simin Behbahani

  Mother, Running, Rain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can't speak to being a force for change, but I take it and wear it proudly. I'll never deny it or be one of those people who are like, "I'm just trying to do my best..." No! I'm all about total world domination.

  Measha Brueggergosman

  People, Trying, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Images work on so many different levels. As a writer you feel them, try not to get in their way or narrow them down to anything other or less complex. A writer is a curator of sorts - once you've brought the images together you try to stand at a respectful distance and let them speak for themselves. Try not to mess with their ambiguities and contradictions. They are what they are, irreducible. This is their integrity.

  Laurie Sheck

  Integrity, Distance, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You don't need any specialized education and you don't need to know anything about the world in which I work. I think my music should be able to speak to you even if you've never been to a concert of classical music before.

  Jennifer Higdon

  Thinking, World, Classical Music

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always tell people that my music should speak to them... and that they shouldn't feel obligated to say why or how. All reactions are valid; the important thing is to have the experience.

  Jennifer Higdon

  People, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you recognize how you are most effective - whether it's how you present yourself or whether it's how you speak, how you convey enthusiasm - when you realize what makes you feel like your most confident self, that's when you are going to be your best. You just have to figure out what makes you effective in your environment. As long as you get that right, they are always going to remember you a lot more!

  Alexis Maybank

  Long, Enthusiasm, Remember

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When my work does speak to audiences, when it creates audiences around it, I feel a little less crazy because what that means is that there are folks out there who are interested in thinking about themselves and the world through a prism. The prism is a labor and there can be a pleasure in labor.

  Dawn Lundy Martin

  Crazy, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love to see people's faces change when they hear me speak English and they realize how far I have been able to go.

  Nicky Jam

  Realizing

  "Reggaeton Superstars J Balvin and Nicky Jam on Conquering the Globe In the Trump Era". Interview with Leila Cobo, www.billboard.com. April 20, 2017.

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• I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the curriculum. There's no art; there's no music. In some cases they've taken away the libraries. They don't do theater. And these are the things that speak to the human soul.

  David Small

  Country, Art, Sorry

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Actors have a platform, especially during awards season. Which I respect. Everyone should speak out. Here's the thing: When it comes to using the platform, I'm a firm believer that when there's something that needs to be said, I'll say it.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Firm, Believer

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We have to help decision makers realize that women's reproductive health rights are civil rights and that women need to be free to make the same decisions that men are free to make with regard to health care and whether and when to have a family. It's going to be increasingly important for women to speak up not only about being able to make our own decisions, but also about the importance of being trusted to make our own decisions.

  Maggie Hassan

  Men, Decision, Important

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• We make progress only when people are willing to speak about what their lives are like and what they care about. We make it possible for others to understand our perspective.

  Maggie Hassan

  Perspective, People, Progress

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Better Person, Strive, Strife

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There are clearly people for whom Stoicism immediately "clicks," it comes natural, and others for whom it doesn't. Then again, Stoicism isn't the only positive philosophy of life. Buddhism is an excellent alternative, if it speaks more clearly to one's personality or cultural background.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Philosophy, Buddhism, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Build. Transform. Love. These are words I use all the time as we speak about community building and even real estate development because these are the kind of communities, like, we want to show you don't have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one. And when people think about living in a neighborhood, they are not thinking about fight - the community of their dreams, they are not fighting in it, they are not struggling in it. It's not, "Oh, I gotta put on my armor." All the time. I don't want to live like that. I don't.

  Majora Carter

  Dream, Real, Struggle

  Source: www.slate.com

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• There are a zillion possibilities that you can do on a piece of paper; there is no rational way to choose. So you have let something else speak... so I can't really remember which comes first, the dialogue or the pictures. It comes from that place where it sort of all comes together on its own.

  Gabrielle Bell

  Together, Remember, Possibility

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign. But I can always speak for myself and the Russians. Zero. I think it divides the country. I think we have a very divided country because of that and many other things.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• During the Month of Ramadan, you should be more careful of the words that you speak to your wife, to your children, to your neighbors, in the councils that you are a part of. That counsel should always be that I want for my brother what I want for myself.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Brother, Children, Wife

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I've always been scared of becoming something. I fear the fact of jailing myself in any circle or group of people or specific work or specific style of music. I guess it is because I don't want to close myself to other possibilities. But it is also because I witnessed people growing and starting to speak only to those who are similar to them. This makes me run away, people who don't experience difference anymore.

  Gaspar Claus

  Running, People, Style

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've spent eight years in Congress avoiding moral language. I represent a swing district. I believe profoundly in not challenging the motives of your opponents. But more and more, we're in a world where leaders have to speak up, and speak in strong moral terms.

  Jim Himes

  Strong, Believe, Leader

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We need to confront the crisis of Islamic extremism and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds. We must stop what they're doing to inspire, because they do nothing to inspire but kill. Religious leaders must make this absolutely clear. Barbarism will deliver you no glory. Piety to evil will bring you no dignity. If you choose the path of terror, your life will be empty, your life will be brief, and your soul will be fully condemned. And political leaders must speak out to affirm the same idea. Heroes don't kill innocents. They save them.

  Donald Trump

  Religious, Hero, Islamic

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For 17 years, elections in Russia have followed the same pattern: Nobody criticizes Putin, nobody runs a real election campaign, the whole process takes place quietly over a period of two months. The Kremlin blocks every alternative to Putin. He doesn't want a candidate who will travel through the country and speak loudly about Russia's problems.

  Alexei Navalny

  Running, Country, Block

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We started the band with a work ethic of 'it's us against the world' and that is something that our fans aligned with, too. Together, we speak a common language. I think that motto has helped us keep the creative force alive all these years while the fans have kept the fire burning for us to always be excited to create new music for them. Without the fans, we are a band without a home.

  David Ellefson

  Home, Thinking, Work Ethic

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• There's a lot of people that don't understand liberalism, there are a lot of people that I think, by definition, still need to be informed and educated that it isn't the soft, loving, compassionate stuff that it's portrayed to be. Trump speaks for himself. Who Trump is and what he's doing is not a mystery to anybody. It's the exact opposite of a mystery. It's in your face.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Mystery

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way from the studio level, and they're financed and they have movie stars attached and all of that. But a lot of times, the storytelling just doesn't speak to me. It feels like it's still oftentimes coming out of a kind of prescribed notion of normalcy, prescribed notion of gender roles. There's not a lot of "new" seeming to be happening.

  Karyn Kusama

  Interesting, Kind, Horror

  Source: www.mtv.com

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