"All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too."
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"The good thing about Pittsburgh, it's a good place to be raised... it doesn't tolerate assholes. You're either a good guy or you're a bad guy... When I'm in Los Angeles having these incredibly surreal moments where nobody's saying anything and everybody's talking incessantly, I always have that Pittsburgh voice in my head - shut up, smile, get the job, move on."
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"Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening."
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"Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd."
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"Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops."
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"Since social media has become so big, body image has taken a downward spiral. Especially in surfing, because we're in bikinis all day, we're really critiqued. After a competition, social media will just be talking about who looked better in a bikini instead of who surfed better. It's not even about the results anymore, so much is body. And that's really frustrating at times."
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"Buddy Hackett [was] talking - this is Hackett, not me - about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families ... the look of absolute horror. He's going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It's just total horror, and the camera's still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, "Anything else, Bud?""
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"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."
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"The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!"
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"I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking."
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"I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'"
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"Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday."
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"Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best."
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"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."
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"That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone."
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"When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking."
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"Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality."
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"Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love."
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"We have to decide whether our fear is going to get the better of us. Once upon a time we had a standard in our country that was 'innocent until proven guilty.' We've given up on so much. Now, people are talking about a standard that is 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.' Think about it. Is that the standard we're willing to live under?"
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"I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so trees can't talk."
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