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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
Talking

"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too."

Long Talking Pride
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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Talking

"I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up."

World Talking Dirty
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Sean Lennon Musician
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"I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music."

Father Talking Rocks
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Larry Ellison Businessman
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"I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it?"

Ideas Talking Idiot
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"She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming such things exist- remain hidden away. Except for when a practical sort of decision has to be made, she never gives her personal opinion about anything. She seldom talks about herself, instead letting others talk, nodding warmly as she listens. But most people start to feel vaguely uneasy when talking with her, as if they suspect they're wasting her time, trampling on her private, graceful, dignified world. And that impression is, for the most part, correct."

People Talking Personal Opinions
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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
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"When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea."

Thinking Talking Educational
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Lil Wayne Rapper, Musician
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"Oops, I said on my d-ck. I aint really mean to say on my d-ck. But since we talking about my d-ck, all of you haters say hi to it."

Mean Hate Talking
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Jerry Lewis Comedian, Actor, Singer
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"I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge."

Thinking Views Talking
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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless."

Talking Calling Opponents
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Dale Carnegie Author, Speaker
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"By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing."

Mind Talking Grateful
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Donald Miller Author
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"I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people."

Believe Talking Self Esteem
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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
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"I don't want to sell credit to people who are going to hurt themselves with it. You should only sell products that are good for the people who use them. Some disagree with this, but I know I'm right. That is to say, you're talking to a Republican who admires Elizabeth Warren."

People Hurt Talking
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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it."

People Real Talking
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Bob Harper Fitness Trainer
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"Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today."

Life Talking Today
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Brigham Young Religious Leader
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"A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young."

Years Talking Husband
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