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48 quotesWe must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.
America
Ruben Askew
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The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
Communication
Atwell
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When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
Audiences
Red Barber
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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Success
Bernard M. Baruch
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
Army and Navy
Ambrose Bierce
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When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Eloquence
Josh Billings
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I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
Nostalgia
Callimachus
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
Politicians and Politics
Thomas Carlyle
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Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
Acting and Actors
Jim Carrey
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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Tact and Tactfulness
Miguel De Cervantes
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To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
Speakers and Speaking
Chinese Proverb
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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Writers and Writing
Jackie Collins
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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
Time and Time Management
Frank Dane
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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
Money
Everett M. Dirksen
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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
Culture
T. S. Eliot
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We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Egotism
Anatole France
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An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Acting and Actors
George Glass
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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
Music
Tipper Gore
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
Feminism
Germaine Greer
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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.
Communication
Henry S. Haskins
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American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
Freedom
Edgar Watson Howe
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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Silence
Kin Hubbard
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Talking is the disease of age.
Age and Aging
Ben Johnson
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You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
Learning
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Painters and Painting
Joseph Joubert
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun