Quotes with shop-talk

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  • George Bernard Shaw I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Dorothy Parker I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Anthony Robbins I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Oldfield I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Joan Didion I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Jeanette Winterson I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
    Source:  (2004)
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anne Rice I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Adele I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Tim Robbins I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, ''If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.''
    Tim Robbins
    American actor (1958 - )
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  • Bryant Gumbel I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Iain Banks I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.
    Source: Use of Weapons (1990) 417
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Brock Lesnar I know of Conor McGregor. This sport has evolved even from when I first entered the octagon. I think people are finding out that you have to talk the talk, and you have to - more importantly, you have to walk the walk.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Vera Brittain I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • William Hazlitt I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Will Rogers I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bruno Mars I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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