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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.

The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that's changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family.

Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable - and this, after he has already been elected and the campaign is long over - then the likelihood he will ever speak the truth about these matters, let alone address them, shrinks to nearly zero.

I can't speak for all Hawaiians, but the reality is that we depend on tourism. Locals might not want to go to the spots like Waikiki, but we do want tourists to experience more of the islands.

If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That's not much of a choice.

I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inner wisdom to speak to us through symbols. This includes the body or somatic problems as well as psychological ones. Dreams and drawings are useful in diagnosing physical conditions.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.

From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect.

Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man.

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

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

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

If you are not happy with something, you should change it. So I went to a lot of therapy, and finally, I am able to speak up for myself: You are going to hear me roar!

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

You speak bad of me, I score goals.

If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I'd think, when I'm grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

I hate not managing to speak clearly. I really hate it. I get a feeling of claustrophobia - like I'm locked in my own head - if what I've said hasn't reached someone.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.

Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists.

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

I've realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not appreciated in the film industry. Instead, it is twisted and distorted. A lot of what I say is lost in translation.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.

I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

I must try desperately to absorb all information I can about the Middle East. I want to excel. I want to speak articulately about the politics of the Middle East and its religion.