- Experience
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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
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a parent, I know I speak for millions when I say that every child deserves to grow up in a stable, loving home.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really articulate when I do my thing - when I speak on the mic, when I do interviews. I'm a colorful personality.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
The craziest part of being on tour is being overseas and having crazed fans so far away from home. They don't speak English, but they still know the lyrics. That's a trip.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why, but I felt as if I was always behind the eight ball, so to speak.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's French, and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently, and obviously, I speak English because I was raised in New York, and I grew up here.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
But my manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising is so touchy-feely. You have to speak to the psyche of the people. I'm not very good at that.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020