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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach
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I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.
Katy B
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Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.


Heywood Broun
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I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.


Alan Arkin
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When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.


Gerald R. Ford
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Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.
David Whyte
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.


James Earl Jones
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.


Yanni
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When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
Benigno Aquino III
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The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
Seamus Heaney
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Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.
Brene Brown
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
Anthony Kennedy
I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.


Robert Menzies
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Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.


Cleo Moore
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
Edward Bach
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
Larry Craig
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Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.


Nicholson Baker
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There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.
Sherwin B. Nuland