Speech Quotes - Page 15

• I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Political, Freedom Of Speech

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• Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

  John H. McWhorter

  Writing, Texting, Way

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• So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

  Michael Curtiz

  Mother, Bridesmaids, Dice

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• I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

  Greg Abbott

  Giving, Kind, Wheelchairs

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• The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion.

  Gorgias

  Evil, Drug, Soul

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• For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

  Dario Fo

  Writing, Use, Habit

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• Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

  David Stern

  Player, Government, Nba

  "Interview: NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

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• My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Parent, Income

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• Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

  David Remnick

  Writing, Practice, Wish

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Russia and Putin". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off
  an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.

  Ian Frazier

  Talking, Sound, Ears

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• Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

  Julius Genachowski

  Government, Essentials, Roles

  "Julius Genachowski: The Exit Interview". Interview with Jeffrey Rosen, newrepublic.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

  Maajid Nawaz

  Giving, Freedom Of Speech, Doe

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• I think Cool Hand Luke was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.

  Brian Helgeland

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  "Screenwriters Are (Obsessive, Creative, Neurotic) People, Too". Interview with Quentin Tarantino, www.nytimes.com. November 9, 2003.

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• It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

  Jann Wenner

  Children, Fun, Heart

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• Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

  Billy Graham

  Cancer, Heart, Mean

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• John Kerry now getting slammed by the Republicans because of a botched joke he did about President Bush and Iraq in a recent speech. Kerry was stunned about this. He said, 'What? People are listening to my speeches?'

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, People, Listening

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• In his big victory speech last night, Senator Kerry said that he wanted to defeat George Bush and the 'economy of privilege.' Then he hugged his wife, Teresa, heir to the multi-million dollar Heinz food fortune.

  Jay Leno

  Night, Wife, Victory

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• The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

  Anthony Browne

  Drawing, Battle, Littles

  "A life in books: Anthony Browne". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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• I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

  George Fetherling

  Young, Therapy, Journal

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• Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Long, Freedom Of Speech, Authority

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• The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.

  Michael Donaghy

  Eye, Vision, Sound

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• For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment.  Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.

  John Bonifaz

  Rights, Years, Citizens United

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• The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Men, Expression

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.12

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• Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill allow me to call him so' you vill understand, sir, that that means, 'if he vill allow me to keep up that 'ere pleasant and uniwersal fiction.'

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

  Ed Rendell

  Campaigns, Paper, Phases

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