#speeches

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. ↗

— Ruth Gordon

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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. ↗

— Voltaire

#banished #beauties #compliment #didactic #flowery

I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax. ↗

— Ed Rendell

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The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#knowing #much #not knowing #problem #speeches

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#belief #college #college students #commencement #into

Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I could never remember the sermons word for word, but here's the gist of almost every sermon I ever heard Joshua give. You should be nice to people, even creeps. And if you: a) believed that Joshua was the Son of God (and) b) he had come to save you from sin (and) c) acknowledged the Holy Spirit within you (became as a little child, he would say) (and) d) didn't blaspheme the Holy Ghost (see c) then you would: e) live forever f) someplace nice g) probably heavan However, if you: h) sinned (and/or) i) were a hypocrite (and/or) j) valued things over people (and) k) didn't do a, b, c, and d, then you were: l) fucked ↗

— Christopher Moore

#speeches #humor

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#bore #changes #else #every #every time

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians. ↗

— Dwayne Andreas

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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. ↗

— Bill Bradley

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