Quotes about speech
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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.
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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
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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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Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing. Charles Baudelaire
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If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval. Charles Sanders Peirce
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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]
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The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.
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We've all seen games when they make play-by-play calls and you can actually hear the call two or three times, due to echoes in the space. That's the sort of thing you don't want here, because that interferes with what we want in terms of good, clean speech intelligibility.
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We strike down the floating buffer zones around people entering and leaving the clinics because they burden more speech than is necessary to serve the relevant government interests, William Rehnquist
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We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man, so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest. Nicholas Meyer
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Speak on, but be not over-tedious. William Shakespeare
loss giving speech
I can give the loser leave to chide.
advice silence speech
Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.
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Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture. Madeleine Albright
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech. Camille Paglia
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Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech. Cal Thomas
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The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases. Calvin Coolidge
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With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can't legislate that. It must be voluntary - especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink. Nick Harkaway
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With this bill, we shift the focus to where it belongs, not on controlling speech ... but on the question of to whom you may be beholden in order to get the money to do that. That's where the focus should be. Bob Bennett
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Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft both gave commencement speeches here. Mike Rogers
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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. Bill Nye
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Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood. Ashleigh Brilliant
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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
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. Barbara Ehrenreich