The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.
Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.
I've had people come stand in front of the treadmill and wait for me to acknowledge their presence so they can speak.
I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.
For years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They've made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.
I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
I made a Twitter account when I was 10 years old. I wasn't even trying to be funny. I was still tweeting in Indonesian. I didn't really speak English yet.
In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.
Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
I've always been uncomfortable, so to speak, when the focus is on me.
President Barack Obama read to a certain portion of white America as an unending attack on white Christian identity, centrality and cultural relevance. In their minds, he was seeking to end their right to bear arms and the right of conservatives to speak freely.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.
I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.
Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.
