Quotes about excerpts (8 Quotes)


    Committee chairman Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) set the easygoing tone early on. I am sure Senator Cohen knows all the answers to the questions he will hear today he has probably asked some of them in some hearings in the past, ... We may even get to hear excerpts of some of the speeches Senator Cohen made during his tenure in the Senate. I am sure he is looking forward to hearing those words again.


    Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, 'It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ.' Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockrans speeches of 60 years before. 'He was my model,' Churchill said. 'I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall.'


    From reading the excerpts, it appears to offer some interesting perspectives on recent history. And as time goes by and as we continue to reflect on history, I'm sure there are going to be a lot of other perspectives and insights offered, as well.


    We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.

    These tapes can be the equivalent of a hand grenade with the pin pulled out. If the defense can convince jurors that the government has misled them by only presenting excerpts, then the government will be in deep trouble.

    The evening began with excerpts from a 1986 interview on Vermont Public Television's Crossroads. ... coming back with a silver medal (from his first international ballet competition) certainly helped me get my first job.



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