Talking Quotes - Page 12

• The spirit of community will be revived as we succeed in devising ways to reinvolve people in solving the perplexing problems they see about them, not just in talking about them, and certainly not in petitioning government to solve them.

  Richard Cornuelle

  Government, People, Community

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• The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mediocrity, Ease, Feels

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Artist As Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.433, Random House

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• People are not even going to have time to listen to radio in their cars because they are going to be talking on their phones or twittering, or BBM'ing. So I feel like the only time people are going to hear music is when your phone rings, so that's the whole market I'm going after.

  Spencer Pratt

  Phones, People, Car

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I do feel that I'm talking to someone who's in a totally different place from where I was when I started modeling. I was fortunate enough to have the wonderful designers and amazing photographers around me, and editors that I knew, and if I wanted to ask a question, I asked them. So that gap has broadened a bit.

  Naomi Campbell

  Editors, Different, Gaps

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

  David Hockney

  Doctors, Years, Drawing

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.

  Rakim

  Kind, Rhyme, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to church, hearing the adults standing on the podium talking about world affairs, about history, about war, and how America was founded.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  War, Reality, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Certainly, when it comes to my profession as a journalist, that allows the government to trace what you're reporting, who you're talking to, and where you've been. So no matter whether or not I have a commitment to protect my sources, the government may still have information that might allow them to identify whom I'm talking to.

  Laura Poitras

  Commitment, Government, May

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have informed the reporting we've done and I think that Americans owe them a debt of gratitude for taking the risk they do.

  Laura Poitras

  Gratitude, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.

  Josh Fox

  Couple, Numbers, Water

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.

  Paul Krugman

  Party, Soul, Mind

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• People ought to quit talking to the press.

  Terry McAuliffe

  People, Quitting, Ought

  "McAuliffe Tells Penn: Stop Talking To The Press" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• It is time to stop talking so much about what kind of leaders we want, to give less lip service to what Washington or Wall Street or Hollywood should do, and to act a lot more like citizens who actually deserve freedom.

  Oliver DeMille

  Wall, Giving, Leader

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• I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

  Maria Bamford

  People, Support, Feelings

  "Interview: Maria Bamford and Andy Kindler". Interview with Jane Borden, www.timeout.com. June 18, 2009.

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• I don't see social media as lending my voice as much as I see it speaking my truth. If you look at my open letters, the one I wrote about Blue Ivy too - you see, I am always as the foundation, talking about us being a better humanity. I believe in that.

  India.Arie

  Believe, Blue, Media

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It's not the subject that's cliché; it's cliché or not. But in fact, this is the way you're talking about it.

  Stromae

  Way, Facts, Subjects

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful.

  Dean Spade

  Attachment, Ideas, People

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I've been mayor so I believe there is something else for me. I don't know what that is yet, but I definitely have a testimony now brother! As far as talking to young couples, talking to brothers who are strong, they have it going on, they know exactly what they want to do, how they want to do it but they don't have any God in their life. They don't really move by a spirit. They are not really connected to the community. There is a testimony in here somewhere that I think I can share but I don't know.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Strong, Brother, Couple

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The goal is to have fun with my friends.And that means sometimes talking about things that you care about.

  Stephen Colbert

  Fun, Mean, Goal

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• I was talking to my friend and he said his girlfriend was mad at him. I said, "What happened?" He goes: "Well, I guess I, uh... I guess I said something, and, uh... and then she got her feelings hurt." That's a weird way to phrase it: "She got her feelings hurt. I said something, and then she..." Could you more remove yourself from responsibility? "She got her feelings hurt." It's like saying, "Yeah, I shot this guy in the face, and then I guess he got himself murdered. I don't know what happened. He leaned into it."

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Girlfriend, Hurt

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• Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get my hair cut on Dekalb Avenue. I never been in a barbershop and heard a bunch of brothers talking about Jews. Black people don't hate Jews. Black people hate white people! We don't got time to dice white people up into little groups. I hate everybody! I don't care if you just got here. "Hey, I'm Romanian." "You Romanian cracker!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Brother, Hate

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• What helped me a lot is the fact that I have a very short neck. If I had a neck like a stack of dimes, you can bet I couldn't take a good shot. But the fact that I had a short neck and worked on it a lot (as opposed to most fighters who don't work on their neck muscles) definitely helped. I would stand on my head against a wall and move my head back and forth, side to side, for half an hour or so while talking on the phone.

  George Chuvalo

  Wall, Moving, Phones

  Source: fightnetwork.com

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• I love talking to all the kids, and have enjoyed the enthusiasm and response from their teachers as well.

  Scott Cohen

  Teacher, Kids, Enthusiasm

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• I am trying to keep my voice in order. Basically not talking much in the van throughout the day to preserve it, which I'm sure is welcomed by the band.

  Dan Mangan

  Order, Voice, Trying

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Writing, Desire, Boards

  Source: www.thatvideogameblog.com

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