- 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
- Persistence
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.
- Shame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
- Buy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Units were coming to combat with DCGS because it was their tool kit, so to speak, but they basically had it boxed up and parked in a corner. They were using off-the-shelf stuff they were having to buy prior to coming into the theater.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020