Talk Quotes

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him.

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president's campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president's policy on leading foreign-policy issues.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.

I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself.

You can still fight when someone can't talk.