"Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever."
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"Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority."
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"We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack."
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"Let your face speak what's in your heart."
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"The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet."
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"Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks."
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"Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you."
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"I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it."
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"If you see something wrong, if you speak out...you can change it."
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"Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy."
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"I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to"
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"The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar."
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"The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning."
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"We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs."
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"Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject."
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"Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them."
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"We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly."
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"The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown."
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"He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back."
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"I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak."
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