Quotes About Voice

It's really important that folks be able to speak out.

You do not need millions of followers to know and to feel that you have a platform. I feel like everyone should realize that they have a platform regardless of how big their audience is.

I have strong reasons for being a Democrat. Basically if you want true fairness in society, you want to give a voice in the corridors of power for the people who otherwise would not have it, I believe that will come from the Democratic Party.

When you're not hearing my voice, I'm working on art. So if you're not hearing me, I'm working for the people and getting inspired.

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or, to put it another way, you're at risk, and the people with you are at risk.

I'm always going to be an actor first and foremost, but I certainly want to have a voice in the kind of work that I'm doing.

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

I have no way of knowing why my career has lasted so long other than the fact that people like the sound of my voice. Fortunately, I've been able to maintain it.

As your Senator, I always fought the fight for those who could not fight for themselves, and I believe the results speak for themselves.

Early on, I started with classical voice and had that wonderful foundation. For where I wanted to go at that time, there were no teachers to teach it, so I came up with all kinds of different ways to develop the sound of my voice.

Free speech is very important.

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

Freedom of expression is very important.

I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

Obviously I'm 100-percent for freedom of expression.

The freedom of expression cannot be defined selectively.

We have a beautiful right in this country, which is freedom of speech.

I did use my own accent in a play once. It's a very freeing, liberating experience. Actors are often asked to adopt a different accent, and sometimes a different voice, so when that's taken away and you don't have to think about it, that's a lovely thing.

Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

Americans feel frustrated, distanced, and disenfranchised from our elected government. We deserve more: a government in which we truly all have a voice.

I think women, we are very interesting. We have a lot to say, and sometimes it's frustrating how all the lead parts are for men.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.