I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.
I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.
I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.
I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.
I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.
That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.
On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.
The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.
I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.
People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
