Quotes with shop-talk

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  • Bill Clinton People like you always help the far-right, because you like to hurt people, and you like to talk about how bad people are and all their personal failings.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bill Murray People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Ben Vereen People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Carlo Ponti People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
    Carlo Ponti
    Italian film producer (1912 - 2007)
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  • Henry James People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Graham Greene People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Bill Maris People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anton Chekhov People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Raoul Vaneigem People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Blaise Pascal Pride takes such natural possession of us in the midst of our woes, errors, etc. We even lose our life with joy, provided people talk of it.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Francis Bacon Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Denis Waitley Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Edwin H. Stuart Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.
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  • Pythagoras Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Lillian Smith Rich folks always talk hard times.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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