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Speech Quotes
"Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal."
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"One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."
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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."
"People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?"
"Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves."
"We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech."
"Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear."
"How is power of speech (vacchanbud) attained? It is when, not a single word is uttered to make fun of others; when not a single word is uttered for wrong selfish motives, material self-gain; when speech has not been misused; when speech has not been used to gain recognition or importance from others - that is when one's power of speech is attained."
"When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech."
"He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled."
"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."
"To talk [negatively] about someone specific is considered slander. You need to have a general understanding about things. Slandering someone is a sign of going to a lower life form in the next birth."
"Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it."
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
"I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams."
"One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them."
"Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech."
"So much can be done, even when little is said. So little can be done, even when much is spoken."
"The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world]."
"All the words thrown on to others will eventually fall on you, so speak such pure words so that pure words will indeed fall on you."
"To actively improve the worldand change your life as well,speak all the good you know,and all the bad refuse to tell."
"There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right."
"From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself."
"Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves."
"Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it."
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