"A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal."
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"On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns."
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"It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain."
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"Here's why I think there's something a little odd with George Bush. Because a lot of the times when he speaks, his words don't match his face. Something is askew. You can't talk about the war with a smile on your face. He does it constantly. If you're the President, you should go We're going to talk about the war, I must have a frowny face. The only time you can smile when you're talking about the war in Iraq is when you go, Well, two Iraqis walk into a bar, hahaha."
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"If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?"
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"The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely."
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"Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery."
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand."
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"Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day."
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"My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about."
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"Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense."
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"I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence."
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"All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence."
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"my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could"
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"The notion of the enduring authority focuses on the fact that some people think that notions like authority of Scripture's is passé, while others say that the present configuration of the doctrine of inerrancy is a late addition. And to both we want to say, No we're talking about the enduring authority of Scripture, grounded first and foremost in its relevatory status, something given by God and utterly reliable."
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"When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people."
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"Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already"
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"We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely."
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"Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking."
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"Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There."
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