I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture. – Adam McKay
I’m of the opinion that it’s okay to be silent, to not speak if you don’t have anything to say. – Cate Blanchett
When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. – Campbell Brown
It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak. – Campbell Brown
My grandparents don’t really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music. – Becky G
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. – Christian Bale
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. – Adolf Loos
I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person… to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator. – Buchi Emecheta
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. – Blaise Pascal
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. – Benjamin Netanyahu
I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. – Aimee Mullins
George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks? – Adam McKay
I’m very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I’m sitting on my Spanish part. And it’s my heart, the way I am, the way I speak. It has nothing to do with the way I look. – Cristina Saralegui
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. – Benjamin Franklin
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. – Camille Paglia
You read things, and they come to you, and if they speak to you at the moment and there’s a voice in you that says, ‘I don’t know, that’s risky,’ or ‘That’s challenging,’ then do it. Run at it and tackle it. And if it’s bad, it’s bad. You’re gonna get over it. – Corey Hawkins
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out. – Billy Graham
Sometimes when I speak to groups or I’m interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts – to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts. – Anna Maria Chavez
I read everything from comics to magazines to fiction – I learned to read in English, years before being able to speak a word of it, by reading ‘National Geographic.’ – Alvaro Enrigue
I speak for Kashmiri pundits because injustice has been done to them, and the political discourse doesn’t give them enough importance. – Anupam Kher
There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn’t speak, because I said I couldn’t say the lines. – Christopher Lee
Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph – when they speak, everyone listens. Because they’re freaking hilarious. – Casey Wilson
I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation. – Amber Riley
I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces. – Amanda Fuller
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form. – Allen Tate
