#peak

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#afraid #break #car #drive #guts

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#acting #actor #afraid #bad #bad guy

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#choose #conferences #could #delegates #essential

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure. ↗

— George P. Baker

#broadly #drama #gives #imitative #interest

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#around #artists #because #big #big business

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen. ↗

— Azealia Banks

#how #i #just #like #listen

In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#am #america #common #diverse #earth

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#comfortable #energy #english-speaking #expressing #feeling

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#dead #demands #poorly #speak #tradition