Talking Quotes - Page 28

• If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

  Michael Caine

  Class, Ideas, Stereotype

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• You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

  Michael Caine

  Writing, Guy, Looks

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• Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. I am not talking about vanity or arrogance . . . for that is not love. It is only fear. I am talking about having a great respect for ourselves and a gratitude for the miracle of our body and our mind.

  Louise Hay

  Gratitude, Love Is, Vanity

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.41, Hay House, Inc

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• One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

  Henry Rollins

  Disaster, Persons

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• Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

  Bill Bryson

  Iowa, Albums, Allowance

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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• I'm in my truck talking to Jesus. And you can see a World Series ring on my right pinkie finger. But when I take my sunglasses off a second later, it's gone. It's the whole divine intervention thing. You know Jesus had something to do with them winning.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Winning, Sunglasses

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• President Obama wants Congress to increase the minimum wage. Believe me, when it comes to doing the minimum for their wage, Congress knows what it's talking about.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, President, Want

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• The good thing about Pittsburgh, it's a good place to be raised... it doesn't tolerate assholes. You're either a good guy or you're a bad guy... When I'm in Los Angeles having these incredibly surreal moments where nobody's saying anything and everybody's talking incessantly, I always have that Pittsburgh voice in my head - shut up, smile, get the job, move on.

  Dennis Miller

  Jobs, Moving, Voice

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• They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it.

  Robin Williams

  Nuclear Disarmament, Circumcision, Way

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

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• I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Men, Tvs

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• And we certainly don't have full conversations on cellphones. You know? Usually the reception is so bad, but it's only bad on your side. The person talking to you has no clue. They're just rambling on and on. You've got your finger jammed in your ear, you're shushing people on the streets. You're ducked behind a dumpster so you can hear about your friend's new hair cut. What about the bangs are they shorter?! Are the bangs shorter?! The bangs!

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Cutting, Your Side, Hair

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• We're always on a tightrope. We're trying to put together people who don't make sense to be together, talking about issues that are sensitive and controversial. We're mixing dangerous chemicals on a nightly basis.

  Bill Maher

  Issues, People, Trying

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• Our date-nightrule is no talking about the kids. That lasts about to the end of the driveway.

  Paul Reiser

  Kids, Lasts, Ends

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• People come up to us and ask how we knew so much about their own family... I'm talking about people from faraway places, too. I get people from Turkey and Chile coming up to me and saying I wrote about their family.

  Paul Reiser

  Turkeys, People, Come Up

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• When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.

  Paula Poundstone

  Writing, Cutting, People

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• I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

  Andy Warhol

  Knows

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

  Demetri Martin

  Trying, About Yourself, Fewer

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2012

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• My friend asked me I ever swam with dolphins. I was like, 'Yeah, of course. What distance are we talking about from the dolphins? Because the last time I was in the ocean, I'm pretty sure I swam with most of them.'

  Demetri Martin

  Distance, Ocean, Lasts

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• In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, Hi, was it good for you too? If a girl spent the night, I'd wake up in the morning and then try to get her drunk.

  Steve Martin

  Girl, Morning, Night

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• They call it football, but the object of the game is to bash the other guy so hard that he's eventually carried off the field on a stretcher. I can't watch football anymore. My psychiatrist said it's better that way. I used to watch a game, see the players in a huddle - and think they were talking about me.

  Jackie Mason

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• I am excited about getting back to what I do best and what my audience likes best, I am writing new jokes every day and soon Ill be telling them every night. Just me, one Jew talking and that's it.

  Jackie Mason

  Writing, Night, Likes

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• New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of $100, with an additional mandatory six-month jail sentence if your ringer plays a Latin-themed novelty song.

  Jon Stewart

  Song, New York, Latin

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• You have no control over your cat! You can't say to your cat, "Cat, heel! Stay! Wait! Lie down! Roll over!" 'Cause the cat's just gonna be sitting there going, "Interesting words ... have you finished?" While you're shouting all this to your cat, your dog's next to you, going ... [mimes obeying all commands] "What the hell are you doing? I'm talking to the cat!" "Oh, I'm sorry!"

  Eddie Izzard

  Dog, Sorry, Lying

  "Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable". Comedy, 1994.

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• I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

  Shelley Berman

  Men, Cost, Inferiority

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• In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Leader, Church, Facts

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