"It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them."
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"It's difficult to make movies. For me it was easier, as a refugee in Switzerland, to make documentary films, because I didn't need a lot of money for it. The way I tell my story or my opinion would be very similar in both fiction and documentary forms. But I found I could speak more effectively to convey this brutal reality through documentary than I could through fiction."
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"I just got back from New York, and I realized in New York, it's very difficult to hear a New York accent. It's almost impossible, actually - everybody seems to speak like they're from the Valley or something. When I grew up, you could tell what street in Dublin someone's from by the way they talked."
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"I told (God) I'd take every opportunity to speak for the kids who can't speak."
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"When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. "So I guess we saved each other."
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"Writers speak for those who are kept in silence"
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"Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think."
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"No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject."
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"Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized."
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"It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others."
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"There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it."
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"Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody."
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"Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him."
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"London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted.""
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"It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak."
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"Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare."
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"Only if enough ordinary Americans speak up and demand better from both their employers and their government is the system going to get fixed. But first of all, we have to understand how serious the problem is."
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"I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better."
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"Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks."
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"We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours."
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