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But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.
James Merrill

Two, Language, Left

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.
Jack Antonoff

Gay, Someone, Fighting

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
Samuel Daniel

Words, Light, Tell

This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds - they lose a lot of their parents' and grandparents' teachings, language and culture because they have to deal with another language and culture 24/7. By the time I was 44, I was terrible at Spanish. I was always intimidated whenever I had to speak it.
Erik Estrada

Time, Parents, Different

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.
Henry Bessemer

Business, Fear, Important

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
Nicholas Culpeper

Made, Present, Vain

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.
Josh Bowman

Women, Men, Two

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.
Rafer Johnson

Fitness, Important, Give

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.
Kevin Johnson

End, Special, Try

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Roger Ascham

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.
Buchi Emecheta

Important, Person, Whole

I can't speak for all women, but I do think that... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely... we're in crisis on a continuous basis...or at least monthly, for sure, I don't know.
Helen Slater

Women, Crisis, Mean

At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.
Joe Flanigan

College, Point, Class

It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.
Mary Steenburgen

Around, Trade, Calls

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.
Mary Steenburgen

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.
Johannes P. Muller

Light, Action, Quite

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Problems, Bed, Happened

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
Julian McMahon

Wrong, Against, Laws

We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.
Julian McMahon

Truth, Powerful, Friend

I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone.
Salvatore J. Cordileone

Marriage, Respect, Focus

We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
Feisal Abdul Rauf

Truth, Justice, Country

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.
Ricardo Lagos

Justice, Interfere

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.
David Krumholtz

Knowledge, Cool, Together

I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look.
Jerry Ferrara

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
Herman Wouk

Strong, Live, Two

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
Russell Hoban

Down, After, Same

The interesting part is that most of the kids I speak to have grown up watching 'Full House,' so they feel like they know me and can talk to me.
Jodi Sweetin

Talk, Kids, House

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
Bernard Pivot

Country, Find, Social

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.
Bernard Pivot

Feeling, Sometimes, Language

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.
Bernard Pivot

Calm, Makes, Both

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