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• My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once

  J. J. Johnson

  Teenager, Garbage Cans, My Boyfriend

  J. J. Johnson (2015). “This Girl Is Different”, p.166, Open Road Media

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• Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

  Jimmy Nail

  Hate, Trying, Shy

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• Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Giving, Imagination

  Joseph Conrad “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad”, Library of Alexandria

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• Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

  George Steinbrenner

  Thinking, People, Underdog

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• I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.

  Al Capone

  Jobs, Judging, Police

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• But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

  Jon Ronson

  Rejection, Sides, Extremist

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• The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

  Henri Murger

  Wine, White, Red

  Henri Murger (1899). “Bohemian Life”

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• Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

  Marc Bolan

  Friends, Book, Hooked

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• When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about who knows how to create and express themselves in the new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read and write?

  George Lucas

  Writing, College, Thinking

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• I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.

  Joseph Stefano

  Hiking, People, Agents

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• I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.

  Scott Speedman

  Journey, Hiking, People

  "Scott Speedman for “xXx: State of the Union”". Interview with Garth Franklin, www.darkhorizons.com. April 26, 2005.

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• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  Naomi Watts

  Movie, Dark, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love you, Susie.She rolled her eyes. Save it.I haven't given you much reason to believe it, but it's true. I love you. I've loved you for so long I can't imagine ever not loving you. When I saw you struggling to breathe yesterday, I was reminded again that a life without you is no life at all. So you don't have to be civil.You don't even have to talk to me, but I'm going to talk to you. I hope you'll listen.

  Marie Force

  Believe, Struggle, Love You

  Marie Force (2013). “Marie Force Bundle: Line of Scrimmage, Love at First Flight, Everyone Loves a Hero”, p.42, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

  Jonathan Raban

  Art, Thinking, Soul

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• Obviously, I'm in a visual business, and people will talk to me about my appearance.

  Megyn Kelly

  People, Appearance, Visuals

  "TV's Wonder Women". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. January 27, 2012.

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• I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Hurt, Friendly, Want

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• When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

  Jean-Claude Duvalier

  People, Giving, Laughing

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• I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.

  Willa Ford

  Girl, Thinking, Ideas

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• I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Night, Silence, Quiet

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• I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

  Gareth Gates

  Girl, Life Changing, College

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• I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Thinking, San Francisco

  "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that's going to be one of my missions coming up.

  Joe Arpaio

  Community, Trying, Together

  "Arizona's 'one-pizza' Democrats taste success as GOP shares slice of the pie" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2012.

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• By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

  Ace Frehley

  Age, Want, Common

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.

  David Bowie

  Don't Talk To Me, Explanation, Listen To Me

  Song: Fashion, 1980

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• You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

  Callie Khouri

  Television, Like You, Accepted

  "'Nashville’s' Callie Khouri: 'Watching two women go at it is boring'" by Willa Paskin, www.salon.com. October 21, 2012.

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