Quotes with shop-talk

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  • Ben Vereen The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Carl Bernstein The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
    An A-Z of cultural terms, The Guardian (1992)
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Plutarch The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Ben Horowitz The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological meltdown.'
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Henry Ford The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Barney Frank The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Callum Keith Rennie The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • Abigail Van Buren The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Oscar Wilde The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Raymond Chandler The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Raymond Chandler The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Camille Paglia The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Anita Roddick The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Lucille S. Harper The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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  • Bruce Babbitt The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Eugene O'Neill The old, like children, talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Ben Carson The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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