One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
Jay-Z

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.
Lucinda Williams

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.
Knute Rockne

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
Jules Renard

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
Vance Havner

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
Bob Newhart

I can let the team do the talking for me.
Bob Paisley

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
Bono

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
Henry Rollins

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.
Henry Rollins

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.
Joel Coen

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
Ace Frehley

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.
Jeff Ament

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.
James McAvoy

I love talking about myself.
Lara Flynn Boyle

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.
Shimon Peres

I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.
Glenn Close