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I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All… — Joseph Campbell
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody… — Michael Caine
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it… — Alan Dean Foster
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable. — Don Henley
Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. — Edith Piaf
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. — Sherman Alexie
What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely… — Louis L'Amour
Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as… — Saadi
It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks. — Mary Steenburgen
When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are. — Bruno Tonioli
Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End… — Frederick Lenz
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. — Vernor Vinge
Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that… — Randolph Bourne
I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out… — Stephanie Beacham
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done… — Idris Elba
I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what… — Rachel Kushner
It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a… — Lucy Liu
People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music. — Elvis Costello
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
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on… — Stephen King
I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak...… — Joyce Carol Oates
There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a… — Barbara Kingsolver
People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares… — AndreÃ¯ Makine
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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