Talking Quotes - Page 17

• We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.

  Jean Houston

  Thinking, Mind, Details

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• I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

  Lou Reed

  Memories, Book, Past

  Song: Talking Book

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• By myself walking, To myself talking.

  Charles Lamb

  Walking

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1836). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb. [With Six Poems by Mary Lamb.] A New Edition”, p.28

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• Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.

  Douglas Adams

  Ignorant, Zoologist, Roles

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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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

  Government, Clerks, Citizens

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

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• For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Dark, Done

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• I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.

  Pablo Neruda

  Heart, World, Quiet

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.873, Macmillan

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• I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled at, seeing a fight, seeing somebody getting their head split open, or fighting over the TV then that's the place for you.

  Sadat X

  Fighting, Jail, People

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• The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?

  Andrew Bird

  Self, Brain, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Bond was so big and mighty in my career, and it is the gift that just keeps giving. I wouldn't be here today talking about "The November Man" if it hadn't been for James Bond. So, there was a desire, a want, and a need to make this film, "The November Man." I loved the title. It has a sensuality and a mystique to it.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Men, Careers, Giving

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Sometimes you're noodling around with a sketch and something incongruous in the drawing calls forth the caption and other times you think of a line and just have to find a place for it. A cartoon with a caption like "I don't want to live forever, but I sure as hell don't want to be dead forever either" sprang into my head and I just had to find the right venue for it which was an old couple talking to each other.

  Robert Mankoff

  Couple, Thinking, Drawing

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down an electronic or print page and pick among six or seven stories you might like and want to read. With television and radio, you have to wait until the guy's finished talking about the balloon boy, which I don't have the slightest interest in, to find out that all hell's broken loose in Baghdad. Because they've chosen that day to start with the balloon boy.

  Harold Evans

  Eye, Boys, Media

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview by Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• We're talking about the Olympics. We're talking about trying to win the gold medal. All of these things can be overwhelming. But regardless of whether I win a gold medal or never compete again, I just have to trust that God has a plan for my life and I'm called to be His representative through the sport and outside of the sport.

  Elana Meyers

  Sports, Winning, Trying

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

  Martin Amis

  Phones, People, Want

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Pakistan is, I always feel, hopeful. You know, our system of government is not, and the system of foreign policy whereby we do whatever is asked of us as long as the price is right only proves to fundamentalist outfits and to militant groups that when we talk of things like democracy, when we talk of things like foreign policy, what we're really talking about is being pro-American.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Government, Long, Hopeful

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• In fact, if you look at people within our government, they seem to be quite enthusiastically fighting the war against their own people at the behest of the United States. So it doesn't seem to me that the strong way to oppose this is by joining politics at all, but just to keep speaking and to keep talking about it.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Strong, War, Fighting

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We need that same mentality in philanthropy, trying things, taking risks, recognizing the first try, maybe the second try, maybe the third try won't work. But if you stay at it and you're learning, you're talking to others, and you're learning together, eventually you'll break through and see the kind of impact you were hoping for.

  Steve Case

  Impact, Break Through, Risk

  "The Giving Pledge: A new club for billionaires". "The Giving Pledge" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage.

  Candace Cameron

  Country, Healthy, Groups

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I've always been a man of commitment whether it was academically or professionally. But spiritually I wasn't committed. I was talking the talk and I just wanted to make that commitment. It also made the commitment in other areas of my life stronger.

  Avery Johnson

  Commitment, Stronger, Made

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• I really like people who can do both drama and comedy and not some like middle of the road do both drama and comedy. I'm not talking about some guy who does these bland dramedies all the time. I'm talking about people that have done heavy drama and who have done heavy comedy.

  James Gunn

  Drama, People, Guy

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I was kind of feeling a spiritual need all those years. My wife Geraldine and I went to an Episcopalian Church for a while. Oh, it just seemed very political to me that a guy so liberal was talking about opposing the war in Vietnam and I didn't want to hear that when I went to church. I wanted something spiritual.

  Robert Novak

  Spiritual, War, Years

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

  Sharleen Spiteri

  People, Records, Songwriters

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were best sellers and they specifically told the story of history from the point of view of women.

  Colin Callender

  Queens, Drama, Book

  Source: deadline.com

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• When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Band, Compromise, Life Experience

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• I did a lot of talking - not as much background talking as a lot of people because I've never been someone who is too afraid of saying what I feel. I just don't see any reason to.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  People, Reason, Backgrounds

  Source: deadline.com

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