Talking Quotes - Page 39

• When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support.

  Scotty McCreery

  Believe, Support, Faces

  "Scotty McCreery: 'You won't see any twerking from me'" by Sasha Savitsky, www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2014.

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• I'm not talking about a "show me other walls of this thing" button, I mean a "stumble" button for wallbase.

  William Wordsworth

  Wall, Mean, Buttons

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• I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.

  Sergio Aguero

  Football, Team, Player

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• The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?

  Mustafa Akyol

  Prayer, Islamic, Alcohol

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• I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous, that I have decided to confront it head-on by talking to the press. I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely, 100 per cent innocent. I assure you: I have never taken drugs.

  Martina Hingis

  Believe, Taken, Drug

  "Hingis tests positive for cocaine", www.cnn.com. November 2, 2007.

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• The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

  Dallas Willard

  Prayer, Believe, Reading

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• If you don't have anything good to say about someone, you must be talking about Hillary Clinton.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Clinton, Ifs

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• Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

  Max Lucado

  Praying, Christ, Talking To Yourself

  Max Lucado (2011). “Live Loved: Experiencing God's Presence in Everyday Life”, p.117, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.

  Richard Stallman

  Responsibility, Thinking, Ethical Issues

  "Why 'Free Software' Is Better Than 'Open Source'". www.gnu.org. 1998.

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• If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about.

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Products, Ifs

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• Apple is not sold with advertising despite the long series of clever advertisements produced for the company over the years. It is sold with evangelism, one person talking to another. The advertising reinforces the evangelist message.

  Steve Hayden

  Clever, Years, Apples

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• Today, you have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That’s right, with your college diploma you now have a crushing advantage over 8 percent of the workforce. I'm talking about dropout losers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.

  Conan O'Brien

  Crush, Jobs, College

  Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 12, 2011.

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• When you have a 12-minute debate over whether lipstick on a pig refers to a demeaning comment about the vice presidential candidate, you know we're not talking about health reform, we're not talking about energy policy, we're not talking about balancing the budget. And you know, it's fairly stupid.

  Newt Gingrich

  Stupid, Pigs, Presidential

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• When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.

  Cal Thomas

  Daughter, Law, President

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• Develop a reputation as a person who, rather than talking a good game, actually plays a good game.

  Bob Burg

  Games, Play, Reputation

  Bob Burg (2013). “Adversaries into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion”, p.179, Penguin

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• Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

  Lois Lowry

  Laughter, Memories, Sadness

  Lois Lowry (1998). “Looking Back: A Book of Memories”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It is a romp through dangerous waters, in which passages of hilarity are shadowed by the dark nights of earliest motherhood, those months so tremulous with both new love and the despairing loss of one's identity-to read it is an absorbing, entertaining, and thought-provoking experience.

  Lydia Davis

  Baby, Loss, Dark

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• Meeting the people. I love it. Just talking with people and sharing part of their lives for just a few moments ... I get love and appreciation and I hope I give them the same.

  Karolyn Grimes

  Appreciation, People, Giving

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm a very straightforward person. But that's fine for a comedian. Because a lot of times you're talking about everyone else.

  John Mulaney

  Comedian, Fine, Straightforward

  "Best comedy 2013: John Mulaney interview". Interview with Matthew Love, www.timeout.com. November 5, 2013.

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• When Britney shaves off all her hair and beats paparazzi with umbrellas - that's what celebrities are supposed to do. They're not supposed to be reasonable, middle-aged guys drinking organic tea talking about semiotics.

  Moby

  Drinking, Hair, Guy

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people talking to each other on stage as if there isn't an audience.

  Jonathan Meades

  Play, People, Theatre

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I never, ever update Mark Twain. I don't modernize it. I let the audience update the material. When I go out on stage, I'm trying to make the audience believe they're looking at this guy who died 104 years ago and listening to him and saying to themselves, "Jesus, he could be talking about today." And that's the point.

  Hal Holbrook

  Jesus, Believe, Years

  "Holbrook’s ‘Mark Twain’ show reaches 60th year". Interview with Brett Zongker, www.seattletimes.com. April 3, 2014.

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• My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and if I was to even understand what was going on, I had to learn the language fast.

  Clive James

  Beautiful, Italian, Men

  "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". Interview with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. January 4, 2016.

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• When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening to a man talking to them from over a century ago. And nothing has changed. So what are you going to do about that?

  Hal Holbrook

  Men, Listening, Sunrise

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• As a song writer when I first was aware of the Beatles and started, you couldn't avoid hearing it, not that I, I tried. And what, what struck me was not so much the songs or the part of the songs that, that seemed unique to me were, was more melodic at the beginning than, than the lyrics because they were still talking about, you know, I love you, I don't love you and I need you or don't need you.

  Jeff Barry

  Song, Love You, Unique

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