Talking Quotes - Page 22

• You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.

  Plato

  Years, Hours, Knows

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• The people who got everything wrong are back on TV talking about the place they got all wrong? Cheney, Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle. It's like Satan's VIP list for Hell.

  Bill Maher

  People, Vip, Bills

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• Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward - like the Koch brothers - to say, 'You know what? You yokels stop talking about defaulting on the debt, because I'm going to lose a fortune!'

  Bill Maher

  Brother, Greed, Debt

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• When you frack a well, you're exploding methane up into the atmosphere. So, Barack Obama, by supporting natural gas, and also talking about climate change is literally burning his own inaugural address. And he's doing it with natural gas.

  Josh Fox

  Atmosphere, Climate, Burning

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• The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.

  Peter Guber

  Rain, Struggle, Men

  "Why Peter Guber’s Book Tell to Win Is a Game Changer". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2011.

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• And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.

  Al Gore

  Gun, Hunters, Sportsman

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• I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.

  Eric Thomas

  Kids, Speak, Trouble

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• I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, "Look who's talking".

  Cass Elliot

  Looks, World, Shapes

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

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• Tonight, the news debated the intelligence of a bear. And it got my wondering why humanity rewards itself for passing tests that we create. And that got me wondering why we care. I've studied enough wars to know that the intelligence of the target isn't on the mind of the person with the gun. Maybe we should stop talking about intelligence and start discussing our grades in compassion.

  Paige

  War, Compassion, Gun

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• Regular reading of and talking about the Book of Mormon invite the power to resist temptation and to produce feelings of love within our families. And discussions about the doctrines and principles in the Book of Mormon provide opportunities for parents to observe their children, to listen to them, to learn from them, and to teach them.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Book, Reading

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• People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees

  Kishore Kumar

  People, Tree, Film

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• I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

  Tawni O'Dell

  Phones, People, Attention

  Tawni O'Dell (2001). “Back Roads”, p.323, Penguin

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• You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Thinking, Acting, Enthusiasm

  Norman Vincent Peale (1961). “The Tough-minded Optimist”

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• Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Editors, Paper

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I think, when people talk about nerdiness, what they're really talking about is smart people who who are trying to think hard about the world. And I don't think that's an insult, I think that's a great thing.

  John Green

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Technology, Men, Years

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• People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mistake, Law, People

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.363, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I think it's kind of awkward when everyone knows you're gay but you don't say it. I had been thinking about coming out for almost a year before I did. I thought about it seriously on the plane ride home from the World Cup, while I was casually talking to my friend Lori Lindsey. She said, "Dude, you should just come out." She was right. Everyone in my life already knew. If you want to stand up and fight for equal rights but then won't even stand up for yourself and say "I'm gay" - that just started to feel weird.

  Megan Rapinoe

  Home, Fighting, Gay

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• Since social media has become so big, body image has taken a downward spiral. Especially in surfing, because we're in bikinis all day, we're really critiqued. After a competition, social media will just be talking about who looked better in a bikini instead of who surfed better. It's not even about the results anymore, so much is body. And that's really frustrating at times.

  Coco Ho

  Taken, Media, Competition

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• For us to feel peace within our hearts while we live here on earth we must be righteous. There is nothing that the world calls fun or pleasurable that can compare to the inner happiness and joy that comes from being righteous, nothing. That may be something you don't think much about, but if you will take time to identify how you feel when you make an unrighteous choice and compare that to how you feel when you make a difficult but righteous choice, you will know what I am talking about.

  Patricia P. Pinegar

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

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• There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.

  T. R. Pearson

  Writing, Differences, Standing

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• Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about...

  Sam Rayburn

  Knows

  "Forge of Democracy, the House of Representatives" by Neil MacNeil, (p. 129), 1963.

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• When we get at least six hours of daily social time, it increases our wellbeing and minimizes stress and worry. The six hours includes time at work, at home, on the telephone, talking to friends, sending e-mail, and other communication.

  Tom Rath

  Stress, Communication, Home

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day.

  Brian Tracy

  Children, Parent, Together

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• For many of us, the opposite of talking isn't listening. It's waiting. When others speak, we typically divide our attention between what they're saying now and what we're going to say next - and end up doing a mediocre job at both.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Jobs, Opposites, Waiting

  Daniel H. Pink (2012). “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others”, p.127, Penguin

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