Quotes with speeches

  • Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
  • Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
  • What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
  • Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?
  • While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • August Wilson Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Archibald Primrose Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
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  • Francis Bacon For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • James C. Humes I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
    James C. Humes
    American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Beck In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Will Rogers Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Peggy Noonan Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
    Talks with Mussolini
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Dale Carnegie There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Boxer To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bo Bennett Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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