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I learned how to speak English watching television. -- Azita Ghanizada
My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation. -- Jonathan Krohn
When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English. -- Wilmer Valderrama
My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish. -- Henry Darrow
I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language. -- Taki Theodoracopulos
Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English. -- Omar Sy
A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate. -- Michael Mosley
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. -- Hesiod
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. -- Johannes Tauler
In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances. -- Seth Lloyd
Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak. -- Mary Matalin
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak? -- Alan Jay Lerner
I don't know how to speak to everybody, only to somebody. -- Howard Gossage
I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone. -- Drake
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak. -- Decimius Magnus Ausonius
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word. -- Aeschylus
He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth. -- Anthony Trollope
ImpatientlyWhat is it?" Emma seemed to remember how to speak again, but her wide eyes continued" -- J.C. Reed
Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. -- Winston Churchill
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation. -- Jackie Chan
Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. "Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas- -- Rick Riordan
I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak. -- Demetri Martin
You can't speak life to others if you don't know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can't breathe. -- Kemi Sogunle
Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. -- Bruce Sterling
I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :) -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak. -- Zhuangzi
I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize. -- Kara Lindsay
I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. -- Eminem
There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak? -- Alan Jay Lerner
There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job. -- Conrad Hall
If you're ever shipwrecked on a tropical island and you don't know how to speak the natives' language, just say "Poppy-oomy." I bet it means something. -- Jack Handey
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective. -- Stanley Fish
Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speaking too fast? Now they're doing it my way. -- Shah Rukh Khan
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigor and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I'm truly amazed at you, Garion," Polgara said. "I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language." "Thank you," he said, "I think. -- David Eddings
I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it. -- Eileen Myles
In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds. -- Kevin Costner
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. -- Hermann Hesse
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. -- Charles Spurgeon
I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers. -- Heather Matarazzo
It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience. -- D. W. Griffith
I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Every time I got hurt, the person who treated me said that. 'It is more attractive to admit that you're in pain.' Because of that person, I learned how to speak with honesty. Without making calculations about what the other person's thinking. -- Joo
When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut. -- Dean Martin
I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch. -- Eminem
The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things. -- Jane Asher
The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too. -- Plato
Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead? -- Virginia Woolf
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie. -- Desiderius Erasmus
I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is. -- Martin Cruz Smith
You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it. -- Larry Speakes
I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak. -- Paula Malcomson
I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it. -- Victoria Principal
She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one. -- Peter Bergman
I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak. -- Joe Namath
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? -- Russell Hoban
When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps. -- George Lopez
I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
How many languages do we really speak? -- Alfredo Jaar
How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. -- Adam Sandler
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves. -- Matsuo Basho
How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself. -- Bear Grylls
I like how I write better than how I speak. -- Henry Rollins
How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin? -- Jack Lemmon
Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak~? -- J.E. Seanachaí
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. -- Orhan Pamuk
How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination? -- Joan of Arc
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak. -- Francois Fenelon
We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak. -- Michel de Montaigne
What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky. -- Pablo Neruda
I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look. -- Jerry Ferrara
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak. -- Francois Fenelon
I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process. -- Curtis Hanson
And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful. -- Mark Helprin
The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody. -- Vik Muniz
How to overcome that seemingly impossible issue... Pray more words about it than you speak. -- Lysa TerKeurst
You were never taught how to talk with your face like you speak with words. -- Paul Ekman
No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger. -- Saint John Chrysostom
How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common? -- Donald Justice
a poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it... -- Randall Jarrell
I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live. -- Octavia Spencer
I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are. -- Leigh Newman
This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love. -- Margaret Atwood
Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican? -- Jerry Coleman
I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them. -- Lisa Bonet
People trying to force their agenda on my by deciding how I'm permitted to speak is offensive. -- Steven Brust
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him? -- Neal Stephenson
Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt! -- Denise Levertov
How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they -- John Keats
Regardless of what we understand or do not understand, we are what we speak. That's how we are known. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel. -- John Piper
I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out. -- Mary Steenburgen
Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep. -- Talib Kweli
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read. -- Carolina Herrera
How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith. -- Rosemary M. Wixom
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. -- Eliot Weinberger
You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow. -- Gary Player
We've all been hurt by words before. So before you speak, think about how your words might affect someone else. -- Naya Rivera
How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help? -- Alfred Rosenberg
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language. -- Blake Judd
Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot. -- Eddie Vedder
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that? -- Victor Hugo
Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper. -- Laurence Shames
I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer. -- Patti Stanger
When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen. -- Azealia Banks
Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel. -- Georgia Cates
How can we speak about "drugs"? It is like speaking about the human race - each person is different, each drug is different! -- Laura Huxley
I certainly think it's important to speak up and say how unacceptable Donald Trump is. I'm always more than willing to do that. -- Paul Wolfowitz
It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you. -- Douglas Coupland
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak? -- Isabel Allende
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. -- Grace Paley
Music, oh, how faint, how weak,Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak,When thou canst breathe her soul so well~? -- Thomas Moore
Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done. -- David Papineau
Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough. -- Oscar Wilde
I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world. -- Jose Parla
Light on my heart, Light on my feet, Light in your eyes, I can't even speak Do you even know, How you make me weak -- Demi Lovato

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