- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speak Quotes
The languages, and limits, people speak within.
A couple of these speak quotes are about language and identity specifically, children translating for family members, and a cultural background where the expected native language was never actually spoken at home. The Language collection covers this in more depth.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't try to copy anybody - I mean, I'm not trying to become another Sinatra. I merely sing the way I speak.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I'd speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
- Nov 07, 2020
That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020