- Intelligence
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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
- Lord
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.'
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walter Isaacson attracts the best and the brightest to Aspen. It is exhilarating to listen to the likes of David Rubenstein and constitutional scholar Jeffrey Rosen speak about George Washington and Newt Gingrich and the original intent of the Second Amendment.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always speak Welsh to my family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak some dwarvish.
- Bummed
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I found out my parents wanted to homeschool me, I was so bummed out. I missed all my friends. But now I realise that if I wasn't homeschooled, I'd be the lamest kid ever - I wouldn't have been able to speak English, for a start.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a Twitter account when I was 10 years old. I wasn't even trying to be funny. I was still tweeting in Indonesian. I didn't really speak English yet.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.
- German
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can speak a bit of German.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leading sinners to salvation en masse - or one by one - it is all the same. I eat it. I sleep it. I dream it. I speak it. I write it. I pray it. I weep it. I laugh it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was told I wasn't black enough for certain jobs because of the way I speak and carry myself and because I was raised in Europe. It's why I left L.A.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020