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  • Adam Sandler I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Ann Coulter I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Aeschylus I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Ann Coulter If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • John Millington Synge In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • William Safire Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
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  • Abe Fortas It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
    Source: Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Mark Twain It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Salman Rushdie It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Mark Twain It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bebe Neuwirth It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Roland Barthes Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Max Eastman Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Terry Eagleton Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur ''Thou still unravished bride of quietness,'' then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
    Terry Eagleton
    British literary theorist and critic (1943 - )
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  • Sir William Osler Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Thornton Wilder Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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