Johnny Cash
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all."
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Say Anything
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Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end."
Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like."
Aleister Crowley
Occultist, Writer
"Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all."
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"Tupac was just so passionate about what he believes in and not afraid to say anything."
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"The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything."
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"I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either."
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"Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything"
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"If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me."
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"If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy."
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"In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything? Descartes hinted at the problem when he wrote, 'My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs."
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"Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me."
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"You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me."
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"In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever."
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"Begin to listen to what you say. Don't say anything that you don't want to become true for you."
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"People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking."
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"What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song."
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"You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it."
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"Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are."
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"In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key."
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"I am no longer afraid to say anything."
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"We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them."
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"Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you."
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"Why can't I say anything normal?"
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