Quotes with shop-talk

Quotes 361 till 380 of 460.

  • Bell Hooks Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women.... they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Billy Collins Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Mark Twain War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bethany Hamilton We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • B. Kevin Turner We believe that Apple has it wrong: they've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different; the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Angela Davis We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Berthold Auerbach We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Henry Miller We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Angela Davis We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley We may talk what we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Betty Friedan We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Carter G. Woodson We need workers, not leaders. Such workers will solve the problems which race leaders talk about.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ben Gibbard We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Arthur Boyd We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
    Arthur Boyd
    Australian painter (1920 - 1999)
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  • Phyllis Diller We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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  • Henry Miller We talk about fate as if it were something visited upon us; we forget that we create our fate every day we live.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Dwight L. Moody We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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