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When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about. Fran Townsend
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When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along. Mona Simpson
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What he does is he comes into a ticketed event, stands at the podium, delivers a speech, may shake a few hands on his way out, ... What I've been doing is I've been in people's homes, on Main Street, in cafes -- not only talking but listening. Giving speeches does not teach you what the problems are that people are facing in their lives. John Edwards
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Yeltsin's delivery during his oath and the fact that he made no speech indicated that he was unwell, but his bearing when he walked to the podium suggested that the illness was not very serious.
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Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. Alan Bullock
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I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control. Alan Bennett
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I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months. Alain Robert
abuse freedom-of-speech denial
Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. Charles Bradlaugh
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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
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With my creative writing students, I've taught literature more than I've taught writing courses'I just hope to make them better. Thom Gunn
book reading literature
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
theatre together literature
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film. Akira Kurosawa
darkness style literature
You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. Chris Abani
literature weapons
My weapon is literature Chinua Achebe
thinking people literature
You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able to do it, but I don't think I am a policeman for literature. So I tell them, Sweat it out, do your best.
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I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.
gay color literature
It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant. Cheryl Strayed
book literature remember
A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10 favorite books. I have to go out of my way to remember to pick up a book like that, but when I do I'm blown away by how very relevant it still is.
lying immortality proof
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. Charles Baudelaire
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself? William Shakespeare
men done immortality
Man is immortal till his work is done. James Williams
our-actions action immortality
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious. Charles Caleb Colton
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Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality. Charles Spurgeon
speech literature immortality
Literature is the immortality of speech. August Wilhelm von Schlegel
mistake desire immortality
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake Arthur Schopenhauer
secret immortality stills
We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not. Elie Wiesel
learning jewish-tradition immortality
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.