- Feel
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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
- Tough
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- Nov 07, 2020
To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a common mistake to speak the same to everybody. We all have different filters.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So the allegation of anti-Semitism is actually a cover for an intra-Jewish quarrel.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020