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Births

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• No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

  Ira Hayes

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  Tags in Complains, Speech

• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  Ingrid Bergman

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  Tags in Speech, Designed

• I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in Speech, Discovered

• I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

  Iain Duncan Smith

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  Tags in Think, Political, Speech

• A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

  Brendan Behan

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• One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

  Fritz Sauckel

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  Tags in Speech, Factory, Common

• A great speech is literature.

  Peggy Noonan

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• Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

  Peggy Noonan

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• As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

  Bela Kun

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• I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

  Francis Ford Coppola

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• He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

  Gilbert Parker

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• Teddy Roosevelt… once said, ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’ Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

  Gerald R. Ford

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• When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

  Gerald R. Ford

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• Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

  Sophocles

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  Tags in Speech

• No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

  Sophocles

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  Tags in Speech

• Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

  Sophocles

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• If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

  George Washington

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• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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• Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

  Susan Sontag

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• I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

  Stockwell Day

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