#speak

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

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I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

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If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#ago #because #era #i #my own

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#american #american people #army #creating #dangerous

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#issues #moral #moral issues #rather #social

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#apply #basketball #basketball court #before #black

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#million #more #people #rest #seems

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites. ↗

— James Buchan

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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#attention #fail #keep #life #listeners

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans. ↗

— Fred Upton

#ill #means #other #reagan #republican