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"Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations."
"Speak with the language of love."
"I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself."
"Listen to the voice that speaks inside"
"When we learn to speak, we learn to translate."
"I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live."
"Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle."
"God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen."
"The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)"
"Speak politely to an enraged dragon."
"I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up."
"I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child."
"My actions speak louder than my words."
"For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that."
"If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?"
"Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths."
"It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent."
"Particular lies may speak a general truth."
"The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience."
"One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found."
