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They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs!
In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
You're going to get flak if you tell the wrong joke, but it's still the wrong joke. Give the wrong speech, you take it on the chin.
Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.
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.
Looking to Donald Trump`s immigration speech can he hang onto his base if he softens his stance on the issue that got him this far?
When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.
The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.
This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.
Seeking approval and people pleasing forces you to alter your actions and speech to no longer reflect what you actually think or feel.
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.
Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.
I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.
To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?