Speech Quotes - Page 34

• Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

  Amartya Sen

  Community, Freedom Of Speech, Able

  "Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.

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• Motivated teams are the key to success at every startup, yet I still know entrepreneurs who gave an inspirational speech to kick off the quarter but haven't been heard from since, or don't realize that their actions are often more demotivating than inspirational.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Keys, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Years, Leader

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.

  Charlie Munger

  Nice, Hate, College

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• Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Heart, School

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• Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fun, Sleep, Games

  Carl Sandburg. (1954). “The Family of Man”

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• Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.

  William McFee

  Destiny, Men, Magic

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

  Ben Shapiro

  Reality, People, Freedom Of Speech

  Ben Shapiro (2015). “Ben Shapiro: Volume I”, p.54, Creators Publishing

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• Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.

  Herbert Spencer

  Echoes, Soul, Hardship

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.20, VM eBooks

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• Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.

  John Stossel

  Mean, Opportunity, Police

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• In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Song, Humanity, Earth

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• They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

  Kanye West

  Rant, Motivational Speech

  "Kanye West’s Zane Lowe Interview Can Only Be Described As Amazing". BBC Radio 1 Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2013.

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• Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Lying, Blessed, Mouths

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• It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.

  Richard Branson

  Saying Nothing, Hours

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• It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Today, Faces

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Imagination, Mind

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• But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.

  Jacques Derrida

  Consciousness, Silent, Subjects

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• Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

  Confucius

  Action, Worried

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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

  Rich, Form, Found

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• In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without a touch of crazy, literature can be a desolate place. In the current climate of careful speech, even fearful speech, smoke-free film scripts, thought-free songs, and child-proof locks on American minds, the oft-repeated lament of the arts is "Where have all those wonderful madmen gone?"

  Carol O'Connell

  Song, Art, Children

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• In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

  Alex Jones

  Military, People, Choices

  FaceBook post by Alex Jones from Jan 09, 2017

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• The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Commitment, Unique, Moon

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• A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.

  Otto Weininger

  Stars, Lying, Stupid

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.138, Рипол Классик

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• I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about.

  Josh Gad

  Writing, Years, Presidential

  Source: collider.com

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• You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Character, Reality, Expression

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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