So I think you know I don't always speak softly.
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Alexa may speak softly, but she carries a big stick of influence.
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Teddy Roosevelt advised us to speak softly and carry a big stick.
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"While I speak softly, I always make the tough decisions," he said.
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In short, how can they speak softly and carry a big stick?
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Speak loudly and they are deemed shrill; speak softly and they are meek.
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In this current political climate, it makes sense for Dara to speak softly.
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Roosevelt said to "speak softly and carry a big stick" in foreign affairs.
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Forced to speak softly and sparingly, he turned to art as his voice.
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And unlike Theodore Roosevelt, who coined that term, Mr. Trump probably wouldn't speak softly.
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" — SETH MEYERS "You know, Teddy Roosevelt's philosophy was 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.
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Amazon's strategy for Alexa reveals a fundamental philosophy: speak softly and empower everyone to just ship.
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" Cohen, keep your eye on the woman who will "speak softly and carry a big stick.
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" That said, for decades American leaders practiced the Theodore Roosevelt doctrine --"speak softly and carry a big stick.
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After a half smile, Hanadi began to speak softly, sharing about her former life in Syria. Before….this.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is still looking to speak softly and carry a big stick — and Martin Scorsese has his back.
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"I think Chris Wray's motto is speak softly but carry a big stick," said one person inside the FBI.
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I tell them that I raised two daughters there, two daughters who speak softly, saying y'all and ma'am and sir.
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The women are not there for our pity; they are there to be listened to, even when they speak softly.
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" The GOP presidential nominee's son posted an image on Instagram of a t-shirt that read "Speak Softly and Vote BIGLY.
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As the last Armenian resident of a nearby village, she knew how to speak softly with the Azerbaijani community of Agulis.
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Someone once said that women candidates — and I don't agree with all of this — speak softly and carry a big statistic.
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And I don't agree with the speak softly part, but certainly they carry big statistics in that they focus on accountability.
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Like Teddy Roosevelt taught us, it's better to speak softly and carry a big stick when you're the leader of the free world.
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Roosevelt's "Speak softly and carry a big stick" helped transform the Navy into a military force capable of projecting power around the world.
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"One of America's strongest President's, Teddy Roosevelt, had a simple national security policy ... 'Speak softly but carry a big stick'," Hagel told CNN.
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FROM COINAGE: The Real Cost of Going to Coachella Volume 1 again proves that while Stapleton may speak softly, he wields some mighty pipes.
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In the foreign policy world we are often reminded of Theodore Roosevelt's famous quote that leaders should "speak softly but carry a big stick".
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The Polish artist Aneta Bartos may speak softly, but her photographs vociferously announce her unique, if challenging, approach to family ties.
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She is the modern day embodiment of Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy strategy of "speak softly and carry a big stick," with arguably better execution and far fewer human lives at stake.
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick," he said at the Minnesota State Fair, using a day in the heartland to help define a new role for Washington in the world.
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President Barack Obama learned that empty threats are ineffective, and that it is better to speak softly but carry a big stick, as reflected in the final years of his administration.
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He touts the virtues of de-escalation training, where officers are put through realistic scenarios and taught to speak softly, maintain a safe distance, and take other steps to avoid using deadly force.
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Mr. Johnson tends to speak softly, but sternly, and his reserved, self-described wonkish style doesn't result in soaring speeches or viral moments meant to captivate voters who have remained largely apathetic about the race.
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As somebody who's grown used to awkwardly yelling at my Echo in the morning to silence the alarm and get it to tell me the weather, it was nice being able to speak softly to the Smart Clock.
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"I am more of a 'speak softly, carry a big stick' guy, but I think there's no doubt that in addition to diplomatic isolation, economic sanctions, our military buildup … the president's rhetoric gave North Korea pause," he said.
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But Trump, no student of history, has yet to learn from Teddy Roosevelt to speak softly and carry a big stick, or from Ronald Reagan that power comes from a strong and consistent foreign policy, not overheated rhetoric.
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Along with a deep love for kitties and their emotional welfare, the clinic asks that prospective cuddlers are comfortable petting cats for long periods of time, know how to speak softly and sweetly and are prepared to calm skittish kitties.
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President Donald Trump has yet to establish his own brand of foreign policy, but it seems he's starting to employ his own version of Theodore Roosevelt's famed "speak softly and carry a big stick" doctrine — minus the part about speaking softly.
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Although Theodore Roosevelt has commonly been associated with the axiom, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," our twenty-sixth president was not known to mince words or let a good audience go to waste in his energetic and outspoken advocacy for the cause of conservation.
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To be sure, past candidates for the office often took on an opposing party's incumbent — Roosevelt did not speak softly about Hoover's failures, nor did Kennedy shun criticism of Eisenhower's record, going so far as to create the "fake news" of a missile gap with the Soviet Union.
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According to the National Park Service, "each bear and each experience is unique; there is no single strategy that will work in all situations," but the NPS does advise that if you do see a bear, it is best to stay calm, speak softly to the animal, make yourself big and offer the bear an escape route away from you.
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Come out here and talk about your exposure – Cramer: Keep your mouth shut because no, you speak softly and you wait until that level where you think the shorts have overdone the stock and you do what [Lehman Brothers CEO] Dick Fuld did in 1998 and pick up the phone to guys like me and you say 32 bid, $1 million.
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Among the historical files are scrapbooks, speeches, and family records, most notably a letter containing Roosevelt's first documented use of the proverb "speak softly and carry a big stick;" a campaign speech from his unsuccessful presidential bid in 1912; and a document criticizing Woodrow Wilson's policy on World War I. The bespectacled politician first sent his papers to the library for safekeeping in 1917.
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" Since then, the list of writers considered for the award has encompassed a wide swath of genres and levels of critical acclaim: Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, and Manil Suri have won the award, as have lesser known authors, like Wendy Perriam, whose passage from Speak Softly won her the 2002 prize by virtue of its fixation on the eroticism of pin-stripes: "Weirdly, he was clad in pin-stripes at the same time as being naked.
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In 2008, Honoshowsky founded the drumming collective Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick. Speak Softly has opened doors to what can be created in the medium of "percussion only music". Each guest drummer was asked to record a drum piece. They were given no parameters as to what to play.
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"Parler tout bas" (English: "speak softly") is the third single by Alizée released in April 2001. It featured an instrumental rendition of the song in addition to Alizée's solo rendering.
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"Speak Softly, Love" is a popular song published in 1972, with music by Nino Rota and lyrics by Larry Kusik. The song was first introduced as an instrumental theme in the 1972 film The Godfather that was simply known as "Love Theme from The Godfather". The highest-charting rendition of either version was by vocalist Andy Williams, who took "Speak Softly Love" to number 34 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100. and number seven on its Easy Listening chart..
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"Speak Softly (You're Talking to My Heart)" is a song written by Jesse Mendenhall and Steve Spurgin, and recorded by American country music artist Gene Watson. It was released in February 1982 as the second single from album Old Loves Never Die. The song reached #9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
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Also performed was a cover of the Alter Bridge single "Rise Today" and Led Zeppelin's "Communication Breakdown" as well as an extended guitar solo by Slash which ended with a performance of The Godfather theme "Speak Softly Love" (listed as "Godfather" on the track listing). In July, the recordings of the show were made available for streaming on YouTube.
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Breaking this rapport or disagreeing is deemed disrespectful. Face facial expression is crucial to Vietnamese, so they are usually very indirect with what they say and usually avoid stating their opinion in case they are wrong. It is considered to be polite if women speak softly when they talk. If they talk with a high volume in their speech, it is considered to be negative.
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However, even though her 1982 recording, "There's Still a Few Good Love Songs Left in Me", brought Francis her last entry into the country charts, several songs never made further than being recorded. Many songs from that time, such as Francis' versions of classics such as "Speak Softly, Love" and "Break It to Me Gently", and original songs such as "Blue Orleans", are still awaiting official release.
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Roosevelt was good at coining phrases to concisely summarize his policies. "Big stick" was his catch phrase for his hard pushing foreign policy: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." Roosevelt described his style as "the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis." As practiced by Roosevelt, big stick diplomacy had five components.
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A common term costeños call one another is mijo, a contraction of the phrase mi hijo ("my son"). Several such terms are derived in consequence of their rapid speech, and they also employ intricate linguistic humor and jokes that are difficult to translate or even understand in the other regions. Furthermore, each province has a different variety of accent, with different specific terms. Serranos usually speak softly and with less speed.
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Yam was the "speak softly and carry a big stick" member of Cantonese opera community but without cult of personality character. Entourage (hospital, airport, etc.) around her could become out of control if she allowed it. (For example, construction, medical and legal professionals at a certain pay grade were not allowed to advertise out-right in the past. Getting in the limelight with celebrities was an alternative or even better deal.
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A 32¢ stamp was issued on February 3, 1998, as part of the Celebrate the Century stamp sheet series. In 2008, Columbia Law School awarded Roosevelt a Juris Doctor degree, posthumously making him a member of the class of 1882. Roosevelt's "Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick" ideology is still quoted by politicians and columnists in different countries—not only in English, but also in translations to various other languages.
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" Naval War College Review 61.1 (2008): 50–67. online The implicit threat of the "big stick" of military power provided leverage to "speak softly" and quietly resolve conflict in numerous cases.Kathleen M. Dalton, "Making Biographical Judgments: Was Theodore Roosevelt a Warmonger?" OAH Magazine of History (13#3 (1999) online He boasted in his autobiography: Richard D. White Jr states, "Roosevelt's warrior spirit framed his views of national politics, [and] international relations.
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In The Whole Woman, Greer argued that, while sex is a biological given, gender roles are cultural constructs. Femininity is not femaleness. "Genuine femaleness remains grotesque to the point of obscenity", she wrote. Girls and women are taught femininity—learning to speak softly, wear certain clothes, remove body hair to please men, and so on—a process of conditioning that begins at birth and continues throughout the entire life span.
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Al Martino was close behind Williams with his recording of "Speak Softly Love (Love Theme from 'The Godfather')", beginning his chart run with the song in the Billboard issue dated April 29, 1972, just three weeks after Williams's version debuted, and reaching number 80 on the Hot 100. and number 24 on the Easy Listening chart.. Climax made it to number three on the Hot 100. and number six Easy Listening. with "Precious and Few".
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His signature song is "Hamsafar". With over 40 years of fame, Sattar has over 70 hits which includes the internationally known song "Gol-e Sangam". Sattar has recorded over 350 songs and is among very few Persian singers who in addition to diverse sound of Pop, performs both Persian traditional and classical music professionally. Sattar has also recorded a number of cover songs in English such as "Feelings", "A time for us", "Speak softly, Love" and "I Believe".
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Sealed With a Kiss was Bobby Vinton's twenty-third studio album for Epic Records. It was released in 1972 just before Epic released Vinton from his contract with them. The title track (a cover of Brian Hyland's 1962 hit) is the album's only single. Other covers include "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Speak Softly Love", "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Come Softly to Me", "Song Sung Blue", "The End of the World" and "Our Day Will Come".
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The single "Spanish Ballerina" (written in Bohlen's europop sound) reached number 93 in the German single charts. Apart from singing, Martino played the role of Johnny Fontane in the 1972 film The Godfather, as well as singing the film's theme, "Speak Softly Love". Martino had been notified of the character Johnny Fontane by a friend who read the eponymous novel and felt Martino represented the character of Johnny Fontane. Martino then contacted producer Albert S. Ruddy, who gave him the part.
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Slash released the track listing for the album on March 5, 2012. Kennedy, who wrote the lyrics, has said that some of the lyrics on the album are about his past negative experiences with drugs. On March 26, 30 second samples from "Apocalyptic Love" were made available on Amazon.com. It is an "internet rumor" according to Slash that the lead intro riff for "Anastasia" takes inspiration from Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, which Slash interpolates live in his version of "Speak Softly Love".
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The seventh stick stands for a 3D image contraption that Dan traded for. The eighth stick represents the law coming for Dan. Flossie, then ninth stick, hides him and his horse. Frankie, Flossie's daughter, is the tenth stick that Dan and his best friend Swinn, the eleventh stick, fought over. The twelfth stick is Dan's motto, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Flossie does not explicitly explain the thirteenth stick, only that it caused at least half his trouble and half his pleasure.
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His title comes from his position as the interpreter of Rabban Gamaliel II: Gamaliel would speak softly, and Hutzpit would announce Gamaliel's words to the listeners.Brachot 27b At one point he lived in Tzippori and had contact with rabbis Eleazar ben Azariah, Jeshbab the Scribe, Halafta, and Johanan ben Nuri.Tosefta Kelim, Bava Batra 2:1 He is described as one of the Ten Martyrs in the Midrash Eleh Ezkerah, where he is said to have been murdered and dismembered "one day short of his 130th birthday".Midrash Eleh Ezkerah; Artscroll Yom Kippur Machzor p.
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While WNUF broadcast in stereo, since much of the Big Band music it played was recorded before the advent of stereo, many of the recordings were actually a form of "simulated" stereo or electronically re-recorded to simulate stereo. Though licensed to a suburb almost 20 miles from Pittsburgh, WNUF identified itself as a "North Hills" station. DJs were instructed to identify the station as "WNUF (speak softly and mumble) licensed to New Kensington (say clearly and loudly) North Hills". In 1979, WNUF was granted an increase from 20,000 to 50,000 watts effective radiated power.
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In 2009, he self-published his first chapbook, For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly, which garnered national and international acclaim. Musicians Carlos Santana and Harry Belafonte were early champions of Reyes' work. He has been anthologized in the collections Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (Floricanto Press); Queer in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out (Cognella Press); and Joto: An Anthology of Queer Xicano & Chicano Poetry (Kórima Press). He and his work have also been featured in The Atlantic, the Huffington Post, Medium, Remezcla,, VICE, and Teen Vogue.
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Coppola hired Italian composer Nino Rota to create the underscore for the film, including the main theme, "Speak Softly, Love". For the score, Rota was to relate to the situations and characters in the film. Rota synthesized new music for the film and took some parts from his Fortunella score, in order to create an Italian feel and evoke the tragedy within the film. Paramount executive Evans found the score to be too "highbrow" and did not want to use it; however, it was used after Coppola managed to get Evans to agree.
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Liên Khúc Âm Nhạc Không Biên Giới: #Speak Softly Love - Tuấn Ngọc #Lá Thu Vàng (Les feuilles mortes by Joseph Kosma)- Khánh Hà #Diễm Xưa - Khánh Ly #Chiều Tím - Lệ Thu #Anh Hùng Xạ Điêu - Thế Sơn & Như Quỳnh 05\. Lãng Tử Tình Yêu (Lời Việt: Lê Xuân Trường) - Nguyễn Hưng 06\. Hài Kịch: Con Đường Nghệ Thuật Chông Gai (Nhóm Kịch Thúy Nga) - Hoài Linh, Chí Tài, Kiều Linh, Uyên Chi & Bé Tí 07\. My Way (Comme d'habitude) (Claude François) - Hollie Thanh Ngọc & Angela Trâm Anh 08\.
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The film's score, composed by Nino Rota, notably contains three memorable motifs, two of which would be reused in Rota's most famous film compositions: La Dolce Vita (1960) and The Godfather (1972). Another prominent motif had already been used in another Rota composition, Il Bidone (1955). At the 45th Academy Awards, Nino Rota's score for The Godfather was removed at the last minute from the list of nominees for Best Original Score when it was discovered that the melody in "Speak Softly Love (Love Theme from The Godfather)" had previously been used in Fortunella.
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A painter leaves the town and walks around countryside. While he is resting on the grass, humming the melody of Speak Softly Love, a large spaceship lands near him. An alien exits the spaceship, photographs the environment and tries to contact the painter by changing his appearance to resemble nearby animals and objects and by touching him. The painter is frightened and tries to run away, but becomes tired, falls from a cliff and lies on the ground, imagining that the alien is going to lock him in a cage and torture him.
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Larry Kusik (also known as Larry Kusic) is a lyricist. He is perhaps best known for writing the lyrics for the tune "Speak Softly Love", the love theme from the 1972 film The Godfather. He has also written lyrics to many other movie themes, including "A Time for Us" from the 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet, Murder on the Orient Express, Mommie Dearest, Rosemary's Baby, "Love Said Goodbye" from the 1974 film The Godfather Part II and Serpico. Along with composer Paul Evans, he wrote the song "Live Young" for the spring break film Palm Springs Weekend.
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Heman Gibbs settled in the 1850s near the modern intersection of Cleveland and Larpenteur Avenues. His homestead is on the National Register of Historic Places and his home is a county museum. On September 2, 1901, then-Vice President Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the African proverb "Speak softly and carry a big stick" in a speech at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, which was still a part of St. Paul at the time. Roosevelt became president just two weeks later, upon the assassination of William McKinley, and built the phrase into his concept of Big Stick Diplomacy.
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Bugs tries to win the townspeople over with Theodore Roosevelt's famous "I speak softly, but I carry a BIG stick!" quote, even dressing up like Roosevelt. However, Sam declares "I speak LOUD and I carry a BIGGER stick, and I use it too!" He uses it on Bugs. Sam starts kissing babies (one of whom reacts by spitting the kiss off); he goes to kiss a disguised Bugs, who plants one on Sam first then yells that "a bad man bit my wittle nose", attracting some women of the town who chastise Sam and rough him up as punishment.
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In addition to Antioquia, the Paisa region includes the departments of Caldas, Risaralda, Quindio and some towns of Valle del Cauca and Tolima. Although Paisa culture is dominant in Medellín, the so-called "Paisa Capital", the city is becoming more cosmopolitan, now offering music from other regions of Colombia (Vallenato and Chocó), and a variety of restaurants including Chinese, Cuban, and Argentinian. The Paisa culture has a Spanish background, and is traditionally Catholic, and entrepreneurial. Paisas are said to speak softly and quickly, to smile easily, and to love music, poetry, soccer, bargaining in the markets, and parties.
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The term smart power emerged in the past decade, but the concept of smart power has much earlier roots in the history of the United States and is a popular notion in international relations today. 1901: President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims: "Speak softly and carry a big stick." 1948: The United States initiates major peacetime soft power programs under the authority of the Smith-Mundt Act, including broadcasting, exchange and information world wide to combat the outreach of the Soviet Union. 1991: The end of the Cold War was marked by the collapse of the Berlin Wall, which fell as a result of a combination of hard and soft power.
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When Al bursts back into the cabin, complaining that Tom needed to help him search for Will in the woods, Tom suddenly shoots Al, believing that the shot will lure Will back to the cottage. After hearing the gunshot and fearing for Helen's life, Will does return to the house. Will and Tom speak softly of their regrets and share an intimate father and son hug on the porch. Inside the house, Helen remembers that when she and Tom had returned to the house having already had her rifle taken from her, Tom had ejected the cartridge that was in the rifle's chamber onto the floor.
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The Andy Williams version of "Speak Softly Love" also made its first appearance in the April 8 issue and reached number 34 on the Hot 100 during its 11 weeks there and number seven Easy Listening over the course of 12 weeks. A recording of the song by Al Martino debuted on both of those charts in the April 29 issue and peaked at number 80 during its four weeks on the Hot 100. and number 24 on the Easy Listening chart, where it also spent four weeks.. In the UK Williams began a run of nine weeks on August 5 of that year that led to a number 42 showing.
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After working on the New York stage where he won a Theater World Award for his performance in the 1951 Broadway musical Seventeen,Naden, Corinne J. The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre: 1943-1965 Scarecrow Press, 2011 p 205 Kallman starred in the title role of the 1965–1966 television sitcom Hank. He returned to Broadway, taking over the leading role in the musical Half a Sixpence.Dick Kallman, 1966 - NYPL Digital Collections As a singer, he released several albums of pop standards, including Hits & the Misses and Speak Softly, and in conjunction with his TV series, Hank Sings and Dick Kallman Drops in as 'Hank'. He performed one of his songs on an episode of Hullabaloo.
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Yosimar Reyes (born September 22, 1988) is a queer undocumented immigrant poet and activist. He was born in Guerrero, Mexico and raised in East San Jose, California. Reyes has been described as "a voice that shines light on the issues affecting queer immigrants in the U.S. and throughout the world."For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly by Yosimar Reyes (Evolutionary Productions, August 13, 2011) Reyes centers queer, working class, and immigrant themes in his work. He has been a guest speaker at numerous universities, community organizations, and cultural institutions including Stanford University, UCLA,Yessica Frias “Guelaguetza” ‘’Student Event Finder’ June 2, 2013 Princeton University, the San Francisco Public Library, the Park Avenue Armory, the Aspen Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and the North American Literary and Cultural Studies department at Saarland University in Germany.
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He is also featured in Billy's DVD entitled "Life on Drums", which was released on October 8, 2010. Honoshowsky is most commonly known as the founder of No Use For Humans (NUFH), an avant-garde electronica band from New Jersey, and he's also the founder of the drumming collective Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick. Honoshowsky has performed and recorded with many metro New York City/ New Jersey bands, from hip-hop band Universal Rebel to world/avant-garde group In Petto, has toured the United States with hardcore band Hungry Housewives, and also performs solo sets under the name Soul Amputation. In addition to performing, Honoshowsky teaches private lessons, hosts drum workshops, and is a facilitator The Rhythmic Arts Project (TRAP) program for therapy and to increase coordination and motor skills for physically and mentally disabled people.
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The continued unavailability of The Moviegoer is believed to be due to Walker's dissatisfaction with his albums from the period, which he describes in the documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man as his "wilderness years". Walker has blocked CD re-releases of The Moviegoer, Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his TV Series (1969) and Any Day Now (1973). In spite of the albums deletion, the majority of the songs were released in recent years on the expansive 5 Easy Pieces (2003) boxset and Classics & Collectibles (2005). "Glory Road", "The Summer Knows", and "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti" are included on the 5 Easy Pieces (2003) boxset while "Loss Of Love", "Come Saturday Morning", "That Night", "This Way Mary", "A Face In The Crowd", "Speak Softly Love", "Easy Come Easy Go" can only be purchased on the compilation Classics & Collectibles.
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The rifle has since acquired the modern, unofficial nickname of "The Big Stick," from Roosevelt's famous quote, "speak softly and carry a big stick," derived from a West African proverb. alt= Other arms of notable provenance include Buffalo Bill's lever-action rifle, George Armstrong Custer's ivory-gripped pistols, George Washington's flintlock hunting rifle, Geronimo's bow and quiver of arrows, the James-Younger Gang's revolvers, Josiah Bartlett's saber and scabbard, and a half-stock percussion rifle made by Meshek “Mose” Moxley, a gunsmith who had escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad. Most of the weapons at the Frazier were either manufactured or owned by veterans of American or European military conflicts, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the War of the Second Coalition, the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, the Seminole Wars, the Texas Revolution, the Creek Alabama Uprising, the Mexican–American War, the Apache Wars, the Crimean War, the Sioux Wars, and the American Civil War.
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She worked with Tang until she retired around the time Tang died. These two “little palace maids” (一對小宮燈) of the Shing Sou Lin Opera Troupe (勝壽年粵劇團),Fong Yim Fun of the "speak softly and carry a big stick" generation – RTHK Radio 1 【Free as the Wind】 06 December 2016 Episode, guest professor referred to the joke in Heaven Brought Us Together (1959 天賜良緣) which is not the opera now with same Chinese title but with characters and plot identical to The Merry Phoenix (1958 彩鳳喜迎春) Fong (濃茶 strong tea) and Hung (醇酒 fine wine), vocal styles dominate the Cantonese opera world since early 1950s, with Hung mostly to the north of Hong Kong while Fong in Hong Kong and overseas until Hung visited Hong Kong in 1980 again since her departure in 1955. Hung presented the second Mrs. Tang (Cheng Meng-har, 鄭孟霞) the trophy for Golden Needle Award of RTHK Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award 1986 (Posthumous) – video.
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