"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
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"Only comedies can get you that engaged in a movie, dramas people just sort of sit there and eat their popcorn and nothing really happens, they might cry a little bit, but that's it. Horror movies are talking at the screen, guys are elbowing each other, laughing at each other because they got scared. That's the beauty of a horror movie."
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"If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you."
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"Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!"
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"When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person."
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"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
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"They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves."
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"I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them."
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"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
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"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."
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"You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?"
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"I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue."
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"If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm talking of the past - you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference."
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"Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about."
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"Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. I'm not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals."
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"If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?"
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"Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way."
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"It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say."
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"In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge."
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"The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else."
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