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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.
Swami Sivananda
Life
Good
Thoughts
Water
Made
Ocean
Consequences
Earth
Bad
Details
Composed
Drops
Least
Up
Mountain
Endless
Tiny
Grains
Whether
Little
Them
Actions
Even
Series
Speeches
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter Drucker
Leadership
Defined
About
Results
Liked
Attributes
Making
Effective
Being
Speeches
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
War
Day
Great
Will
Settled
Majority
Blood
Questions
Iron
Decisions
Means
Speeches
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken
Faith
Time
Day
Election
Party
Past
Nothing
Other
Spend
Out
Rascals
Steals
New
Making
Articles
Sitting
Candidates
So Much Time
Turn
Much
Election Day
Gang
Many
Each
By The Time
Save
Speeches
When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.
Paula Poundstone
School
Word
Every
Spell
Our
Out
High
Obama
High School
Voice
Gives
Put
Heads
Until
His
Graduate
Listen
Inauguration
Speeches
Being president isn't anything like reality TV. It's not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it's about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.
Michelle Obama
Reality
Responsibility
Country
Awesome
President
TV
About
Leading
Like
Insulting
Making
Handle
Sending
Candidate
Being
Anything
Whether
Fiery
Reality TV
Tweets
Awesome Responsibility
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.
Gore Vidal
Today
Own
Books
Evidence
Some
Write
Longer
Read
Either
Public
Them
Public Figures
Figures
Speeches
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
Ignorance
Blame
People
Problem
World
Live
Eloquent
Others
Books
Wrong
Feign
Know
Make
Another
How
Real
Go
Fix
The Problem With
The Real World
Real World
Theories
Who
Things
Speech
Speeches
I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Women
People
Judge
Try
Men
Skin
Color
Through
Wrong
Like
Look
Opinions
How
Whether
Teach
Basis
Speeches
During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
Kate Smith
God
National
Before
Presidential
Bless
Sing
Democratic
God Bless
America
Committee
Request
Received
Speeches
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
Charles Krauthammer
Work
Matter
Slick
Wears
Magic
Proposals
Ideas
Dazzling
Always
Off
Campaigns
Legislative
While
Speeches
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
Dick Durbin
Veterans
Pay
Our
Monuments
Rank
Parades
Unacceptable
More
Disability
Disabled
Bottom
Than
Owe
List
Illinois
Speeches
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
James Earl Jones
Great
Thoughts
Language
Mind
Feelings
Drama
Ability
Great Literature
Through
Share
Feel
Read
Greater
Than
Human
Achieved
Anything
Literature
Human Mind
Sermons
Speeches
We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.
Mario Cuomo
Reality
People
Will
Past
Must
Feet
Glitter
Beyond
Look
Get
American
Substance
Senses
Public
Much
American Public
Hard
Showmanship
Things
Bring
Speeches
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.
Marjane Satrapi
Time
Improvise
Every
Changes
Every Time
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Everything
Everything Changes
Say
Bore
Write
Never
Open
Freestyle
Another
Very
Going
Program
Speeches
There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage.
Robert Kennedy
Rights
Too Much
Hypocrisy
Field
Too
Enough
Possibility
Has-Been
Easy
Civil
Civil Rights
Give
Call
Passage
Been
Legislation
Which
Far
Much
Speeches
O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are coming upon you! If you were to judge as I do, you would not easily put your neck under a foreign yoke.
William Wallace
You
Judge
Calamities
Too
Easily
Would
Put
Fair
Foreign
Coming
Were
Scotland
Yoke
Which
Your
Aware
Credulous
Neck
Speeches
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
William Whipple
Time
Good
Sometimes
Will
Long
Lawyer
Sorry
Matters
Congress
Say
Small
Throw
Importance
Gentlemen
Deal
Am
Repeated
Off
Chicanery
Very
Precious
Precious Time
Who
Good Deal
Even
Wholly
Waste
Speeches
One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
Alice Walker
Conversation
Circle
Must
Above
Mention
Casual
Never
Globe
Another
Child
Even
Set
Speeches
Nearly every politician plagiarizes their speeches, because nearly every politician has a speech writer do the work for them.
Ana Kasparian
Work
Politician
Every
Writer
Because
Them
Nearly
Speech
Speeches
Trump needs to stick like glue to whomever writes his speeches and fire whomever told him Americans are up at night worried about the comfort and well-being of people who broke into our country illegally.
Ann Coulter
Needs
People
Fire
Country
Our
Worried
Broke
About
Writes
Like
Him
Comfort
Well-Being
Stick
Glue
His
Trump
Up
American
Who
Whomever
Night
Speeches
I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.
Ann Richards
Travel
People
Country
Believe
Over
Making
Speeches
Since my student days, I'd been a fan of those books with titles like 'Great Speeches that Changed the World,' as I loved the idea that the right person with the right words at the right time could really make a difference.
Anthony McCarten
Time
Great
Words
World
Right Person
Changed
Books
Right Time
Right Words
Those
Could
Student
Idea
Since
Days
Like
Make
Make A Difference
Been
Person
Difference
Fan
Loved
Titles
Really
Right
Speeches
I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.
Audra McDonald
Practice
Bathroom
Used
Speeches
Tony
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
You
Focus
Gone
Every
Other
Once
Month
One Thing
Find
Something
Week
Write
Put
Between
Calendar
Gets
Your
Hard
Awards
Thing
Speeches
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
You
Before
Airplane
Would
Gigs
Bullet
Train
Get
Loved
Little
Japan
Even
Play
Speeches
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