Speakers Quotes - Page 23

• I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Talking, Majority Leader

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

  Joseph Devlin

  Ignorance, Simple, Purpose

  Joseph Devlin (2014). “How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version”, p.4, Full Moon Publications

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• He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Speak, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Fun, Purpose, Why Not

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Powerful, Power

  Benjamin Disraeli (1881). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion”

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• At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!

  Zig Ziglar

  Fun, Attention, Bob

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• We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.

  C. S. Lewis

  Laughter, Humble, Blood

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

  Howard Dean

  Speech, Rich, Form

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• Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.

  Dale Carnegie

  Home, Wish, Four

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• Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?

  Kevin Costner

  Knows

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• If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

  Ann Coulter

  Hurt, Hate, Police

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• I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend. Mr Speaker, I am sorry for this. I have apologised to the Prime Minister, to the public, and, at the first opportunity available, to the House.

  Liam Fox

  Loyalty, Sorry, Mistake

  Liam Fox during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 10, 2011.

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• Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

  Zig Ziglar

  Andrew

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• What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Bores, Listeners

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• Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to read it in the right rhythm.

  Jenova Chen

  Rhythm, Honestly, Poetry Is

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Needs, Cooperation, Fairness

  "Just Capital: What the 99% Really Need (Part 2)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.

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• I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

  Frederick Douglass

  Slavery, Abolitionist

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• Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

  Joan Didion

  Talking, People, Twelve

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• The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Tone, Moral

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• Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.

  Charles Koch

  Different, Students

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I have made you - along with Fox News has made you - think Obama is something that he isn't. And it's such a shame. I have so distorted who the real Obama is in your mind, that it is paralyzing our government. It is paralyzing the Speaker of the House, who really, really, really, really wants to go in there and really, really work with Obama, but he just can't. It's hard for people like Boehner to move too far in my direction because of the misperception of me, Obama says, created by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

  Plato

  Art, Holy Prophet, Order

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• In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

  Plutarch

  Character, Mind, States

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged in an effort,"to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them," apart, perhaps, from some circle of immediate associates.

  Noam Chomsky

  Circles, Effort, Definitions

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

  Reggie Watts

  Acting, Groups, Favorites Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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