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"I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world."
"In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense."
"Listen to how everyone is talking about you. You have to use it as fuel for motivation."
"It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past."
"In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever."
"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."
"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."
"Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats 5 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question … 10 Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo."
"Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the performance of one particular act is alone (considered) work? To be still is to be always engaged in work. To be silent is to be always talking."
"My mind works so fast. When I think of something I say it. Lots of times I say it even before I think of it."
"There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street."
"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."
"There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say."
"i never learned anything while i was talking."
"In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate."
"Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year."
"Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there’s something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it’s not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It’s not like I sit here philosophizing, because I’ve no talent for that. It’s just this thing about silence that’s so wonderful."
"Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation."
"Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them."
"You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it."
