Quotes with shop-talk

Quotes 41 till 60 of 460.

  • C. S. Lewis As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.
    Source: The Weight of Glory (1949)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Boris Kodjoe As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Brad Sherman As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Anita Roddick At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Bev Perdue At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for medita
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Anita Hill Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Alain de Botton Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • George Eliot But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bobby Seale But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party- whose members for the most part come from the ghetto- seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language.
    Source: Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Ben Stein But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin' -- they're...they don't have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it's a BS answer. It's an answer that wouldn't make sense to a small child.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Billy Boyd But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Agnes Repplier Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Bill James Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Barrett Foa Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • Carl Rowan Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
    Source: Inside Washington, March 20, 1993.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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