Talking Quotes - Page 27

• I was a Jew talking about Goyim religion. If I had just stuck to Moses, everything would have been cool. But, copping to being part of the whole Christ murder conspiracy got everyone goose-stepping again.

  Lenny Bruce

  Goyim, Murder, Christ

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, People, Shy

  Source: www.today.com

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• Here in the United States, when the term "fascist" gets used, it`s either talking about other countries, ancient history or it`s used as a sort of insult, right, a sort of generic right wing epithet that people use to criticize politicians who are at most on the edge of mainstream American political thought.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Wings, People

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• Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

  Charles Frazier

  Believe, Contentment, Matter

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• Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  People, Ordinary, Wells

  Russell L. Ackoff (1986). “Management in Small Doses”, Wiley

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• Is Thom Yorke there? Oh he is? Well then how the can I be Thom Yorke, talking to you, right here, on the phone.

  Thom Yorke

  Phones, Wells

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• If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.

  Paul McCartney

  Boys, Years, Pot

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• Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

  Jackie Evancho

  Waiting, Normal, Superstar

  "Jackie Evancho: Chasing Her Dreams". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

  John Cusack

  Philosophy, Mean, Keys

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• The voice of Thich Nhat Hanh-friendly, patient, steadfast, confident, contemporary, and often witty-seems, to me, an intermediary big brother talking directly to me on every page saying, 'Look! It's right there in you,' the very wisdom that leads to compassion.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Witty, Brother, Compassion

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• You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.

  Eric Stoltz

  Growing Up, Silly, Mean

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• Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.

  Thomas Ferguson

  Voice, People, Sound

  Thomas Ferguson (2011). “Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems”, p.362, University of Chicago Press

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• I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well as a recognized duty, to listen patiently to what might be said to him upon any subject under consideration....Neither, I need scarcely say, was he in the habit of talking, much less boasting, of his own achievements.

  Martin Van Buren

  Men, Might, Needs

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• Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Issues, Water, Hot

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• What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

  Anton Chekhov

  Country, People, Boredom

  Anton Chekhov (2008). “Ten Plays”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.

  Ziggy Marley

  Fighting, Action, Hard

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

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• I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

  Kristen Stewart

  Actors, Want, Comfortable

  "Interview with Twilight's Kristen Stewart". Interview with Will Lawrence, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 13, 2010.

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• There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Gigs, Periods, Certain

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• Girls weekend with the 'Vampire Diaries' girls has become a big deal! It's our quality time. It's so much fun to unload and not feel guilty complaining or talking about your insecurities or bonding over things that you thought you were on your own about.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Fun, Weekend

  "Nina Dobrev Exclusive Interview" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Whether it's good talk or bad talk about me, as long as your talking and making me the center of your world, I win.

  Behdad Sami

  Winning, Long, World

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• I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

  David Mamet

  Years, Guy, Down And

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 10, 2011.

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• If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me.

  Drew Barrymore

  Crafts, Permission, Instruments

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• I won't stop talking. I am a girl you have no control over. There is not a gag big enough to handle this mouth.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Mouths, Enough

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• It was one of the first things I did on my own; I worked at McDonald's, raised the money and did it. I'm really, really passionate about pro-choice, because I wouldn't be here talking to you right now if I'd had a kid at 15.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Kids, Mcdonalds, Choices

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• Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as walking up Broadway in Manhattan talking to yourself, except instead of eighteen people who hear you in the street talking to yourself, they're all in the room. They know, like, nothing.

  Philip Roth

  Teaching, People, Generations

  Philip Roth (2010). “The Human Stain”, p.190, Random House

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