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When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole

Empathy is even better than talking in one language

I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple “first” things.

I don't like talking. It's how I'm built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don't mind talking or smiling, it's just I don't do it very much. I haven't got a smiling face or a talking mouth.

Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

My heart knows me better than I know myself, so I'm gonna let it do all the talking.

If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?

If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about.

We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist.

I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump

There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.

There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared.

We can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women.

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

If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like 'are you a unicorn?'

If you want to be a rich person... don't let the poor person inside of you do your talking.