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Image of Barack Obama
He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Talking
Image of Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Collection: Talking
Image of Marcus Buckingham
I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.
- Marcus Buckingham
Collection: Talking
Image of Ai Yazawa
It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I was really happy. I kept talking about myself, and didn't hear anything about Nana. But now that I know you better; I know you wouldn't say anything.
- Ai Yazawa
Collection: Talking
Image of Patricia C. Wrede
Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?” “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.” “I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,” the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
- Patricia C. Wrede
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Image of Michelle Obama
And that's my message to voters, this isn't about Barack, it's not about person on that ballot -- its about you. And for most of the people we are talking to [blacks], a Democratic ticket is the clear ticket that we should be voting on, regardless of who said what or did this -- that shouldn't even come into the equation.
- Michelle Obama
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Image of Thom Yorke
If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.
- Thom Yorke
Collection: Talking
Image of Robert Rauschenberg
I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.
- Robert Rauschenberg
Collection: Talking
Image of Plutarch
Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.
- Plutarch
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Image of Jaggi Vasudev
I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.
- Jaggi Vasudev
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Image of Lucy Maud Montgomery
Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Collection: Talking
Image of J. R. R. Tolkien
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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Image of Bill Murray
I'd like [Santa Claus] to give Wes Anderson, the director, enough money in his next budget for an aerial shot - just a little copter shot. He really wanted this one helicopter shot, and Disney wouldn't give him the money. Just wouldn't give him the money. Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
- Bill Murray
Collection: Talking
Image of Terry Pratchett
It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of Bill Vaughan
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
- Bill Vaughan
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Image of Barack Obama
Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Hugh Prather
No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
- Hugh Prather
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Image of Rick Riordan
Hey, ugly!" Annabeth yelled. I hoped she was talking to the giant, not me.
- Rick Riordan
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Image of Nicholas Sparks
Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.
- Nicholas Sparks
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Image of Michael Bloomberg
We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.
- Michael Bloomberg
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Image of Marisha Pessl
Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.
- Marisha Pessl
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Image of Barack Obama
I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Bernie Sanders
I am deeply concerned - about virtually everything that Trump is talking about and has talked about in his campaign and the kind of people that he is appointing.
- Bernie Sanders
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Image of Peter Berg
There's no hidden agenda, no political agenda [in Patriots Day]. The only politics we were really talking about was the politics of community, the politics of social love.
- Peter Berg
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Image of Phyllis Bottome
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
- Phyllis Bottome
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Image of Thom Yorke
I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.
- Thom Yorke
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Image of Tennessee Williams
I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own lifestyle, from what was going on in the world. After I recovered I was amazed at certain people who had died. I hadn't noticed that they had gone. Not friends ... I'm talking about public figures who had passed away.
- Tennessee Williams
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Image of Alan Watts
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.
- Alan Watts
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Image of Henry Moore
Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
- Henry Moore
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Image of J. R. R. Tolkien
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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Image of Natalia Vodianova
If we're talking about being skinny or losing weight, I don't have that problem; it's genetics.
- Natalia Vodianova
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Image of Sheryl Sandberg
Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.
- Sheryl Sandberg
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Image of Elizabeth Scott
Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.
- Elizabeth Scott
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Image of Bill Mollison
We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us.
- Bill Mollison
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Image of Edward Snowden
Getting inequality out there into the consciousness was important. All these political pundits now talking about the 2014 and 2016 elections are talking about inequality.
- Edward Snowden
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Image of Darynda Jones
Can I jump in your body and make out with my wife through you?” I fought a grin. “It doesn’t really work that way.” “Then can you just make out with my wife and pretend I’m in your body?” “No.” “I can pay. I have money.” “How much we talking?
- Darynda Jones
Collection: Talking
Image of Randy Pausch
Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.
- Randy Pausch
Collection: Talking
Image of William Shakespeare
Things are often spoke and seldom meant.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Talking
Image of Saul Williams
i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking
- Saul Williams
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Image of Karl Pilkington
Normally you can't hear you're own voice because you're talking over it.
- Karl Pilkington
Collection: Talking
Image of Jesse Ventura
Most people would assume, as I do, that the courtroom is a place for the truth, but it's not with our corrupt judges today - and I'm talking about the corrupt ones on the court of appeals.
- Jesse Ventura
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Image of Leo Tolstoy
Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Image of Kate Beckinsale
Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.
- Kate Beckinsale
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Image of Ai Weiwei
I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
- Ai Weiwei
Collection: Talking
Image of George Will
Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.
- George Will
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Image of Nicki Minaj
We got the Hawks I aint talking about the Peach state
- Nicki Minaj
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Image of Chuck Palahniuk
The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Collection: Talking
Image of Nicholas G. Carr
When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.
- Nicholas G. Carr
Collection: Talking