1,251 Quotes About Talking

  • Author Ellen DeGeneres
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    It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience is just as important as that guest that's sitting next to me. It's not about me and that guest exchanging energy and talking. It's about everything that's going on in that room, and they're as much a part of the show as anything. I like this better than anything I've ever done.

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  • Author Esther Dyson
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    In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

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  • Author Frank Dane
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    Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

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  • Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

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  • Author Joan Didion
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    Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

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  • Author John Dewey
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    Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.

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  • Author John Dingell
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    Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

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  • Author Jonathan Dimbleby
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    I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

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