Uninhibited Speech Quotes

Truth comes out in wine.

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

[Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as a message: Be cautious, be prudent, be bland, never push anybody, never say what you really think, offer yourself as a hostage to the weirdos even before they make the first move. These days, a lot of people are opposed to the newfound popularity of 'trash television,' and no doubt they are right, and the hosts of these shows are shameless controversy-mongers. But at least they are not intimidated. Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

[There exists a] profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

NBC sort of let me do my thing. They never told me what to say and what not to say. It was pretty weird.

Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves, and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of its own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, everyone...a humble miracle

I can afford to say what I wish.

It's not secret that usually I don't have a filter.

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

Donald Trump speaks his mind. If you like it or you don't like it, at least you know where he stands.

I just say what comes to my mind and sometimes it's not the brightest.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

Twitter is now an anger video game for many users. It is the only platform on which people feel free to say things they'd never say to someone's face.

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.

It's so liberating to just have absolutely no filter and say exactly what's on your mind because you don't know otherwise.

I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

Unconstraint is the grace of conversation.

In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.

What comes through my head is going to come out of my mouth.