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I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
LaToya Jackson

Family, Future, Past

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Everything, Talk

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis

Strange, Fact, Adult

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

Good, Words, Deeds

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

Christmas, Home, Country

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Time, Car, Possible

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

Started, Quit, Begin

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
Bill Cosby

Parenting, Try, Matter

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Means, Oneself, Conceal

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
Charlie Sheen

Future, Live, Past

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Plato

Thoughts, Moment, Another

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft

Him, Enough, Opinion

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost

Writing, Off, Second

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

Business, Technology, Talk

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Nothing, Saying

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
Nelson Mandela

Peace, Government, Against

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo

Woman, Eyes, Her

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
Demetri Martin

Love, Trust, Women

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Yogi Berra

Impossible, Everybody

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
Steve Martin

Sex, Pretty, Start

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.
Clint Eastwood

Time, Big, Around

I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.
Mike Tyson

Put, Body, Guys

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
Bill Gates

Put, Sense, Able

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz

Waiting, Listening, Opposite

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.
Bertrand Russell

True, Saying, May

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Rodney Dangerfield

Short, Fact, Knowing

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Sigmund Freud

Young, Away, Her

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.
Joe Biden

Money, Keep, Spend

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