Speak Quotes
The languages, and limits, people speak within.
A couple of these speak quotes are about language and identity specifically, children translating for family members, and a cultural background where the expected native language was never actually spoken at home. The Language collection covers this in more depth.
As soon as people heard me speak, they would compare me to my father. My siblings had the same kind of pressure.
There are Jews who came from 102 countries and speak 81 languages - how do you consolidate them into one nation? This is where I saw my role.
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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.
When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to...
I live the Swiss mentality but the Kosovo mentality too, because when I go home, I speak Albanian.
It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
Europe should speak more effectively and clearly with one voice in the world.
I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience.
I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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.
It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
