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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
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad died 11 years ago, I don't see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don't hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn't develop as it ought to.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
- Since
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Chinese name is Chen Wei. I can speak a tiny, tiny bit, just basically get around, but I understand it decently well.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
- Nov 07, 2020
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.
- Nov 07, 2020
We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.
- Nov 07, 2020
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very private person, and I never felt the need to speak about my relationship in public.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020