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“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.”

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The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Have Speech Never Often
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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Hate speech is a specie of terrorism.

Hate Speech Terrorism
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Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.

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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

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As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

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I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

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I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

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Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

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I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

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I gave 738 Rotary Club speeches, and it was just driving me crazy, so someone said, 'Why don't you charge money?'

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

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Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

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Silence is safer than speech.

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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

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I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

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I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

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I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

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People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

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The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

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I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

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