Quotes with shop-talk

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  • Frank Zappa Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • C. S. Lewis Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.
    Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 176
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Flores Mr. Trump needs to show how he will address the critical issues on the minds of Americans: national security and economic opportunity for hardworking American families. Americans need to see more vision and less trash talk.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Ann Beattie Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francis Picabia My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Ben Affleck My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Brene Brown My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Anita Hill My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bo Sanchez My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.
    Bo Sanchez
    Filippine author, lay pastor and entrepreneur (1966 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej My philosophy has been to take things day by day. When I talk about this philosophy, it makes people perhaps a little surprised.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Aaron Paul My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.
    Aaron Paul
    American actor (born 1979) (1979 - )
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Sydney Smith Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Miller No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Oscar Wilde No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bobby Flay Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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