Quotes with shop-talk

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  • Byron Dorgan If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Bobby Orr If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Bennie Thompson If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Barry McCaffrey If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Andrew Young If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Benjamin Booker In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Barry Sanders In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Carl Sagan In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 18 (p. 313)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bonnie Bassler In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups that function in unison.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Bahman Ghobadi In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Bob Dylan In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Timothy Leary In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
    Timothy Leary
    American psychologist and writer (1920 - 1996)
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  • Alberto Giacometti In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bill Gates Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Art Spiegelman Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.
    Art Spiegelman
    American cartoonist and editor (1948 - )
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  • Ben Carson Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Bernadette Peters Into The Woods was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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