"Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck."
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"T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."
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"This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human."
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"I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes."
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"In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying."
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"I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak."
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"I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction."
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"Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly."
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"We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?"
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"They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence."
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"Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy."
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"I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak."
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"I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia."
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"To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all."
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"Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time."
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"The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals."
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"It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?"
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"Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences."
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"But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned"
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"I want to dedicate the rest of my life to spreading the love of Christ. Because God has done so much for me and has given me this platform to speak into millions of lives, I feel it is my duty..."
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