Not Talking Quotes - Page 9

• I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Talking, Understanding, Mind

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• There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

  Rick Moody

  Powerful, Talking, Needs

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• Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

  Chris Hayes

  Cancer, Talking, Smoking

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• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• We don't like to use the phrase "state security" in the United States because it reminds us of all the bad regimes. But it's a key concept, because when these officials are out on TV, they're not talking about what's good for you. They're not talking about what's good for business. They're not talking about what's good for society. They're talking about the protection and perpetuation of a national state system.

  Edward Snowden

  Keys, Talking, Tvs

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Reading, Kids, Black And White

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• I must say also, that we are not talking just about foreign investors.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Talking, Investors

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The law is rough. I'm not talking about new laws, the existing law is very rough.

  Donald Trump

  Talking, Law, Rough

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Yeah, that'll excite the media, what role will Bill [Clinton] have, versus the [Donald] Trump story. But in all of this, the key to remember is that we're not talking about media.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Keys, Media, Talking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

  Keith Jarrett

  Heart, Player, Ideas

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• It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.

  Kevin Bales

  Talking, Numbers, People

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• I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Thinking, Views, Talking

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• Without question, purity is beautiful. We're not talking about repression or prudishness, but about having a confident and serene sense of your dignity and worth.

  Jason Evert

  Beautiful, Talking, Prudishness

  Jason Evert, Crystalina Evert (2011). “How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women”, p.126, Totus Tuus Press

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• People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Wall, Hate, Mean

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• Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.

  Jack Welch

  Lying, Team, Talking

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• I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and woman goes to die for man. The chances are that in five minutes John kicks Jane, and Jane kicks John. This is a materialism and no love at all. If John could really love Jane, he would be perfect that moment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Men, Love Is

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• I think that unlike W Bush who was an actual evangelical and sincerely so (my family knew the Bush family), of course Trump will disappoint when it comes to evangelicals. I'm not talking about personal behavior but policy.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Thinking, Talking, My Family

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• We need each other's ideas. Now, I'm not talking about racist ideas or misogynistic ideas or cruel or criminal ideas. I'm talking about most of us who have very varied experiences, needs and ideas. It's really about believing that it's an important part of healing America.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Believe, Healing, Talking

  "Should We Take "The Other" To Lunch?". "TED Radio Hour", www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• Castro wasn't a Marxist. He was a Catholic educated by the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits. But fundamentally, I'm not talking about practising Catholics, but rather about something which is inbred; that is, a part of your country, your heritage, your life.

  Dorothy Day

  Christian, Country, Brother

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• I'm not talking about the people. I have nothing against the people. I have nothing against the Indonesian people or the Arab people or the Muslim people. I'm talking about the ideology.

  Geert Wilders

  Talking, People, Ideology

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• I am not talking to anyone in the British media. They are all pricks.

  Allan Border

  Media, Talking, British

  "Maddest Ashes Stories: Ten of the best tales from England, Australia and the biggest cricketing rivalry" by Gershon Portnoi, www.mirror.co.uk. July 9, 2013.

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• All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess.

  Guido Palau

  Girl, Real, Princess

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• We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Art, Views, Talking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk R-rated. I mean I've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. When a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on TV. Unless it's cable.

  Bob Saget

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

  "The R-rated comedy makes its comeback". The Associated Press, www.today.com. September 01, 2005.

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• Nature is located mainly in national parks, which are vast tracts of wilderness that have been set aside by the United States government so citizens will always have someplace to go where they can be attacked by bears. And we're not talking about ordinary civilian bears, either: We're talking about federal bears, which can behave however they want to because they are protected by the same union as postal clerks.

  Dave Barry

  Talking, Government, Clerks

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.156, Ballantine Books

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