"I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

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"Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes."

Tom Cruise, American Actor

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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say."

Radha Mitchell, Australian Actress

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"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading."

Boris Becker, German Athlete

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"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."

Moliere, French Playwright

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"If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales."

Oliver Goldsmith, Irish Poet

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"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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

David Byrne, Scottish Musician

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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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"One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself."

Patrick Stewart, English Actor

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