| Epizeuxis: Figure of emphasis in which the same word is repeated two or more times over in immediate succession; repetition of the same word, word, word.... |
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"What kind of America do we want over the
next 20-25 years? Do we want an
America that’s going to be able to complete in a global marketplace with two
serious challengers: China and India. Over the next 20-25 years
China and India will emerge as serious, serious,
serious global players. And we will have to
compete with them." -- J.C. Watts, Keeping American Competitive in the Global Marketplace |
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"So, they sent me to a salon where they gave me a perm, and after a few days all my hair fell out and I had to shave my head. And then they really didn't like the way I looked, ‘cause now I am black and bald and sitting on TV. Not a pretty picture. But even worse than being bald, I really hated, hated, hated being sent to report on other people's tragedies as a part of my daily duty. Knowing that I was just expected to observe, when everything in my instinct told me that I should be doing something. I should be lending a hand." -- Oprah Winfrey, Stanford Commencement Address |
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"Here he is! The one and only winner of the Gemini Croquet contest! This boy is fueled, like FIRE! So start melting ladies 'cause the boy is hotter than hot. He's hot Hot! HOT!!" -- delivered by Chris Tucker (from the movie The 5th Element) |
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"Rhett,
Rhett, Rhett! If you go, where shall I go? What
shall I do?" -- delivered by Vivien Leigh (from the movie Gone with the Wind) |
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"The rich nations and the poor nations
have different responsibilities, but one responsibility we all have
-- and that is action. Action, action,
action. The current stalemate between the developed
and the developing worlds must be broken. It is time to came
together in a new international agreement that can be embraced by
rich and poor nations alike." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, United Nations Address on Climate Change |
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"On Commencement Day, speechmakers are expected to offer advice -- as though you need any, as though anything said today could aid your making sense of our one-damn-thing-after-another world. But things are too confused, too loud, too dangerous to make "advice" an option. You need to hear something much more relevant on this day. You need to hear the most important message thus far in the third millennium. You need to hear a maxim so simple, so clear, and so evocative that no one could misconstrue its meaning or miss its weighty issue -- so, here goes. It’s not a statement, but it's a request, It's not a bit of advice, but it's a plea: Help. HELP. HEEEELLLLLLP." -- Tom Hanks, Commencement Address at Vassar College |
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"Isn't extraordinary that the Prime Minister
of our country can't even urge his Party to support his own position?!
Yeah. Weak!
-- Tony Blair, 1997 House of Commons exchange with Prime Minister John Major |
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"Warning!
Warning! Warning! Alien approaching!" -- from the movie Lost in Space |
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"Yes! Yes! Somebody holler: 'Move mountain!' 'Move mountain!' 'Move this mountain.' 'This mountain!' 'The mountain in my life!' ''The mountain in my finances!' 'This mountain!' Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Look at somebody and say, 'Move that thing! Move it out of your....'" -- T.D. Jakes, All I Have is a Seed on My Side |
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