Quotes with shop-talk

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  • Bootsy Collins A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman asking ''Am I good? Am I satisfied?'' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Ben Shapiro After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Obama administration steadfastly refused to say which element of the U.S. military had participated in the assault. Until Vice President Joe Biden decided to talk about it on national television, that is.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Boris Johnson All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bob Dylan All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bayazid Bastami All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.
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  • Bell Hooks America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Matthew Prior And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Barry McGuire And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Betty Ford And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Barbara Castle And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Bruce Campbell Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • C. C. H. Pounder Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Robert Montgomery Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Bernard Barton As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.
    Bernard Barton
    English Quaker poet (1784 - )
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