"I'm guarded; I don't talk much."

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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"One must steer, not talk."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well."

Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Novelist

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"I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?"

Elliott Smith, American Musician

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"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."

Tracy Chapman, American Musician

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"The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess."

Susan Sarandon, American Actress

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"I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons."

James Inhofe, American Politician

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"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."

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"I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary."

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"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."

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"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."

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"I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time."

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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."

"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."

"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."

"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."

"One must steer, not talk."

"There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well."

"I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?"

"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."

"The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess."

"I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons."

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"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."

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"I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else."

"I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary."

"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."

"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."

"I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time."

"Architecture theory is very interesting."

"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"