Quotes with talk-funny

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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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  • Bobby Farrelly In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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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.
    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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  • Bruce McCulloch Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspensed, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
    The Adventurer
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Ellery Channing It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Bill Hader It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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