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In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru. — Pranab Mukherjee
It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different… — Bebe Neuwirth
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think… — Geoffrey Rush
I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges… — Ian Rankin
I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months. — Alain Robert
I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I… — Seth Rogen
He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy. You've got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns. Take the hit for a… — William Kristol
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and… — Malcolm Turnbull
The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of… — Vaclav Havel
One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people… — George Meany
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short. — Fidel Castro
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation. — Washington Gladden
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman
The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with… — Nizar Qabbani
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. — Propertius
The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all… — Jack Canfield
The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or… — Lou Gerstner
He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in its original German. — Argus Hamilton
Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility. — Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take What You Need."… — Gloria Gaither

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