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Talk Quotes

"Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues."

Sean Paul, Jamaican Musician

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"You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios."

Gordon Sinclair, Canadian Journalist

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"I don't talk in ifs."

Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian Statesman

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"We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee."

Peter Bondra, Ukrainian Athlete

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"I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

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"The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl."

Robbie Williams, British Musician

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"I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons."

James Inhofe, American Politician

Talk, Treatment

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"We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see."

Peter Hook, English Musician

"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

"Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share."

Lara Flynn Boyle, American Actress

"Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical."

Christine Lavin, American Musician

"Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?"

Art Buchwald, American Journalist

Talk, Talking, Television

"I'll talk. You'll listen."

Bruce Nauman, American Sculptor

"Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere."

Latrell Sprewell, American Athlete

"I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches."

Pete Sampras, American Athlete

Talk, Talking, Tennis

"Writers write. Dreamers talk about it."

Jerry B. Jenkins, American Novelist

"I could talk about Blade Runner forever."

Brion James, American Actor

"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."

Helen Gurley Brown, American Editor

"To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms."

Gary Lucas, American Guitarist

"I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side."

E. P. Thompson, British Historian

Talk, Weapons, Will

"You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist."

Studs Terkel, American Journalist

"I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward."

Anne Tyler, American Novelist

"If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter."

Bob Uecker, American Athlete

"And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem."

Richard Morris, English Clergyman

"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."

Howard Nemerov, American Poet

"When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about."

Philip Seymour Hoffman, American Actor

"It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him."

Thierry Henry, French Athlete

"Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much."

John Wayne, American Actor

"I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode."

Steve Burns, American Actor

"I can let the team do the talking for me."

Bob Paisley, English Athlete

"I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point."

Frankie Avalon, American Actor

"I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears."

Bette Davis, American Actress

"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

"Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?"

Edgar Bergen, American Actor

"I just talk, and I guess some of my views came out."

Sandy Duncan, American Musician

"I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years."

Steven Cojocaru, Canadian Critic

"I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast."

Jodie Foster, American Actress

"Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible."

Sallust, Roman Historian

"I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?"

Sharon Stone, American Actress

"Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die."

Natalie Goldberg, American Author

"I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general."

Jack Youngblood, American Athlete

"I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it."

Anderson Cooper, American Journalist

"I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox."

Jonathan Bennett, British Philosopher

"It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Talk, Talking, Writers

"I talk by playing, not by words."

Bernie Worrell, American Musician

"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."

Eli Wallach, American Actor

"We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."

Sarah Palin, American Politician

"Only votes talk, everything else walks."

Dan Rather, American Journalist

"I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department."

Nancy Reagan, American First Lady

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