1,251 Quotes About Talking


  • Author Joseph Addison
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    True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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  • Author Joseph Addison
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    It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.

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  • Author Julian Assange
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    We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

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  • Author Julian Assange
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    Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

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  • Author Ken Adam
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    What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

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  • Author Kevin J. Anderson
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    The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

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  • Author Kevyn Aucoin
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    I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

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  • Author Laurie Anderson
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    All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.

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