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"An evening like this would be empty without some reference to [politics] so let's just think of this as empty."
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"You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements."
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"Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you."
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"People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?"
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"I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death."
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"Every professional voice coach worth their salt will bring you back to the importance of tone, pace, and pitch. While these concepts were introduced earlier in The Art of Body Language section, we can now elaborate and take a deeper dive into how you can use your voice to improve your communications."
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"One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them."
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"Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal."
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"I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there."
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"A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful."
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"People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words."
People
"I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school."
Art
"Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon."
Being
"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
Guitar
"I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy."
People
"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."
Music
"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."
Guitar
"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."
Idea
"If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect."
Quality
"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music."
Music
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