Talking Quotes
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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
Georges Braque
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You are able to have disagreements as long as you’re straight talking – you say honestly what can and can’t be done.
Alex Salmond
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If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.
Dale Carnegie
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At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.
Benny Carter
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Talking of love is making it.
William Gurney Benham
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Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.
David Toop
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Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.
Caitlin Moran
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I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.
William Shakespeare
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Enough of talking: It is time now to do.
Tony Blair
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You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the 'talking to your enemy' approach is to equate talking with appeasing.
Jonathan Powell
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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
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We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?"
Richard Feynman
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Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.
Isaac Watts
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He's still talking about it. Nothing's been done.
Lynn Swann
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Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.
Deborah Levy
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American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.
Shirley Henderson
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People took notice of me and saw that I can carry off light-hearted roles as well. They started talking about Pritam Vidrohi, and it became a lovable character; I saw that people were clapping and whistling. It was a big high to watch this kind of reaction.
Rajkummar Rao
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I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media.
Kathleen Battle
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I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.
James Mercer Broken Bells
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I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.
Carlos Beltran
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That's more like it. You're much prettier when you aren't talking. True of most people, I've found.
Kiersten White
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I’m talking to him and photographing, but I can do that because I knew him.
Chris Killip
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Margaret Thatcher was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.
Hilary Mantel
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
Simone de Beauvoir