Speech Quotes - Page 40

• I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen.

  Michael Emerson

  Giving, Black, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than terrorism. People like this - there's not hate in their hearts. They believe what they believe because of the book that they prescribe to. You can't argue with these people.

  Leslie Jordan

  Hate, Book, Believe

  "Candid Q & A with gay icon Leslie Jordan". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Opportunity, People, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I played Thersites and I remember we were also doing some places out of town before starting our run at The Old Vic in London and we were at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and I walked on stage and I've got an opening speech that begins: "Agamemnon, how if he had boils?" And I went on and said: "Agamemnon..." And a woman in the front row just went 'tut'. I thought: "I've only done four syllables, give us a chance!" I got one word out and the audience were already tutting. It was worse than any heckle I ever had doing comedy. So, I'll stick to gnomes.

  Matt Lucas

  Running, Giving, Theatre

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We don't hear our president [Barack Obama] talking about the need for high-quality jobs for everybody, giving it priority, not just giving a speech in Detroit. That's fine, but speaking to Tim Geithner, speaking to Larry Summers. When are you going to make jobs, jobs, jobs a priority rather than Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street a priority? That's what I'm concerned about.

  Cornel West

  Summer, Jobs, Wall

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• I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

  Joe Biden

  Years, Issues, Political

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• I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of different reasons. Because maybe it's politically incorrect, it doesn't have to really to be put in jail.

  Bassem Youssef

  Self, America, Jail

  "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well.

  Frank Luntz

  Successful, Jumping, People

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• Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands out and that is what I was going for in my book "Sound Unbound" was to try and get people to figure out how do we unpack some of the meanings that go into these kinds of sonically coded landscapes.

  DJ Spooky

  Book, Simple, People

  Big Think Interview, April 8, 2010.

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• Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances...If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

  James C Humes

  Writing, Leader, Doe

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• I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

  James C Humes

  Humor, Erotic, Language

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• Fox News may be demolishing its more liberal cable news rivals in the ratings but to Democrats it's still the bogeyman. That's why President Obama took the opportunity to criticize the network during a speech defending his economic record at Northwestern University today. But in doing so, the president not only demonstrated the weakness of his position but also why he doesn'€t understand Fox'€s appeal.

  Jonathan S. Tobin

  Opportunity, President, Records

  "Faltering WH Still Blaming the Messenger" by Jonathan Tobin, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 6, 2014.

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• I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Book, Intellectual, Mind

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• [Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Believe, Rights, Liberty

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.

  Joe Arpaio

  Freedom Of Speech, Looks, Headlines

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.

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• I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.

  Joe Arpaio

  Media, Average, Years

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.

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• I gave the graduation speech at my high school. Not because I was valedictorian but because the grade voted for me to do it. And I gave a slightly contentious speech. I was a little critical of the administration. But for a long time it said on Wikipedia that I took my balls out and exposed myself to the crowd.

  Nick Kroll

  School, Long, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Clinton Foundation does nothing but donate to charities." They can't find any evidence that what Schweizer has written about the Clintons and their foundation and the fund-raising and the getting paid for speeches is wrong. They can't find anything where he's wrong. The book has not been "discredited." So [Donald] Trump delivers this massive speech. It hit home run after home run after home run.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Book, Home

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Negative, Patterns

  "This Ad Won’t Hurt Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 10, 2016.

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• I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.

  J. K. Rowling

  Forests, Hogwarts, Troll

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2016

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• At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.

  Mitt Romney

  The End Of The Day, Campaigns, Ends

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

  MC Yogi

  Silence, Sound, Subtle

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The attitude of the Pakistani people is very good. Whenever I release any statement or deliver any kind of speech, they respond favourably.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Attitude, People, Kind

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• Donald Trump foreign policy speech got good reviews, and it says we're going to defeat the people who are direct threats to us, but we're going to be a lot more cautious about getting involved in long-term, Wilsonian adventures.

  Jeff Sessions

  Adventure, Long, People

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• I liked Donald's Trump speech on foreign policy. What he's showing is that his fundamental views are solid, and that there's an intellectual basis for this, an economic basis for what he's saying, and that can lead him to victory.

  Jeff Sessions

  Views, Intellectual, Victory

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