- Chess
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Many stories come from the dressing room that one doesn't speak when you are playing but can do once retired.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
- Intelligent
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to speak English perfectly. In fact, I want to speak English just like I fight, and, until that moment, I find it very hard to do an interview solely in English.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of being a good voice is knowing when I have a place to speak and when it's appropriate. And to speak from the heart when I do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak to people who have been through so much more.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 17, I was so shy I could barely speak or introduce myself to anyone.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling.
- Singing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be selling out shows and these kids who don't speak English singing along every word? It's wild.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020