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What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common… — Patti Smith
On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's… — Stephen Sondheim
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth… — Susan Sontag
When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that… — Sonia Sotomayor
Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street! — Eliot Spitzer
Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It… — Lysander Spooner
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is… — Lysander Spooner
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It… — Lysander Spooner
Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as… — Lysander Spooner
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. — Gertrude Stein
I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and… — Casey Stengel
I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly… — Kristen Stewart
I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you,… — Pat Summerall
Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in… — James Surowiecki
For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of… — James Surowiecki
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees;… — Radhanath Swami
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your… — Jonathan Swift
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt… — Tacitus
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets. — Edward Teller
British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous. — Emma Thompson
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. — Henry David Thoreau
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. — John Updike
So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' — Tim Vine
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. — Voltaire
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language. — Christopher Walken

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