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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a come...

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I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn...

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He laid his hands on her head, pushing back the hood. He began to speak. His voice was soft, and the...

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Tombs of Atuan

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will ...

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

Writing is the painting of the voice.

All I have is a voice.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence wa...

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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can'...

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I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock ha...

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In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons...

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I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said...

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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, s...

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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - ...

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Adrienne RichOf Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who nee...

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Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whos...

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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has ...

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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has ...

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It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to—or you ignored at your peril.

For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully ...

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Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers....

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There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Powe...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the wall...

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Speech is the voice of the heart.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrai...

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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the v...

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Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but ...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

I love Jessica Simpson. I love her voice. She's amazing.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling ...

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The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind...

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We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own v...

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Colum McCannLetters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice

Words are the voice of the heart.

The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a...

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Will you have the courage to obey the voice of God?

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst perso...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

again, her singing was her only absolute, the only thing that was completely her. a thousand classes...

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David GrossmanSomeone to Run With

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly di...

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If I'm able to use my voice to do good in the world then I definitely want to do that.

She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and...

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She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her...

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We don't need new laws that can be used by organizations with deep pockets and the ability to deduct...

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Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hear...

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Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice.

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E. B. WhiteThe Trumpet of the Swan

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience...

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Erich FrommMan for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

It was not my intention - it never was - to invent a character who should speak for me, the author, ...

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The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.

There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had for...

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George MacDonaldAt the Back of the North Wind

Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.

The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a...

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This is the key to the entire universe. You know what this is? It's not a microphone, this right her...

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It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a l...

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I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almsho...

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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to i...

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O, how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul! The intellect of man sits e...

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Thy silence, then that voices thee.

At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of peopl...

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It is not the voice that commands the story it is the ear.

'Top Gear' changed people's perceptions of me. I've had much more positive responses from my TV appe...

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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their inju...

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Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. ...

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That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and ...

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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within the...

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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. P...

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Margaret AtwoodSecond Words: Selected Critical Prose

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because th...

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I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voic...

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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

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Muriel SparkLoitering with Intent

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that ...

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It is also true that memory sometimes comes to him as a voice. It is a voice that speaks inside him,...

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Paul AusterThe Invention of Solitude

There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to ...

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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets he...

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The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as ha...

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... I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

In the last analysis, be always of whatever truth you would live.For fire flames but in the heart of...

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As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continu...

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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of respon...

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Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak...

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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.

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Slavoj ŽižekGaze and Voice as Love Objects: [SIC 1]

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.