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My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.


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There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
JEFF MERKLEY Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
LIONEL HAMPTON The way they were talking, we thought it was going to be the end of the world.
ALAN SEARS The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
WALT DISNEY COMPANY The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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DAVID MACK We're talking about a small slice of the movie-viewing public. But it's a growing audience.
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JONATHAN POWELL The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, an...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
JULES RENARD We're not talking about your family's Ford Taurus going down the road,
CHRIS WILLIAMS I was trying to get back in transition and my body was going one way, my feet weren't going the same...
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BEN SHEA On the way in, he was talking about the cello.
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SHIA LABEOUF V was half way down the hall when he heard a yelp. He hightailed it back, barging through the door. ...
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RIP TORN Just talking about (the discounts), it was clear that if we were going to come with an employee pric...
MIKE ABERLICH Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty...
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LANCE BENNETT Music is an expression of your experiences, but it can't be an expression in a way that people can't...
LANCE BENNETT Most of the talking was done by me. My aim was simply to educate him.
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KARL PHILIPP MORITZ Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the ...
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BRETT BUTLER There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
DAN GREENBERG There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
DAN GREENBERG You cannot gage the intelligence of an American by talking with him
ERIC HOFFER Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
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TITE KUBO They are talking about the modalities of them doing enrichment. We are talking about them not doing ...
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.
ADRIAN MITCHELL Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with you...
BIBLE I think you can put up John Roberts' ideological twin and you'd get a filibuster at this point. Thei...
SAM BROWNBACK Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; yea...
FEDERICO FELLINI Democrats are right, by the way, when they complain about the way President Clinton's judicial nomin...
TRENT LOTT Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
VANCE HAVNER Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
VINET I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by do...
VANESSA HUDGENS Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; yea...
FEDERICO FELLINI Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; yea...
FEDERICO FELLINI It is significant. We're going from talking to doing.
DENISE HOLMES Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to...
D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES Alcohol and gaming aren't suffering the way tobacco is because you don't have the president of the U...
GARY BLACK You can tell when they stop talking and they stop moving their feet.
JANET WETZ Our sense from talking with these teens is that the Internet expands their network of friends. They ...
AMANDA LENHART Sturmhond had a way of talking that made me want to shoot someone. Preferably him.
LEIGH BARDUGO There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around...
JEFFERSON MAYS By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite ...
GEORGE BANCROFT I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
CALLIMACHUS I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky...
CALLIMACHUS What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink...
ZE FRANK The Deakin editor [James McConville] has spent a lot of time talking up his review and talking down ...
JENNIFER CLARKE It's equally my obligation as a comedian to point out what is wrong with us and get us talking about...
AZHAR USMAN Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.
MAGGIE GRACE You are a masterpiece. A painting. A poem. A song. A statue. A work of art.
Think of yourself ...
TONY EVENS I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big a...
MIKE MILLS By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to...
MICHAEL MORPURGO We know we're capable of doing it. It's a matter of going out and doing it. We can't keep talking ab...
JEFF JILLSON We did everything correctly. There were no negotiations. We were talking after dinner, having had a ...
ATHOLE STILL This is just not something for someone who's going to be studying Shakespeare or playing the classic...
ERIC BRYANT I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep tal...
RICHARD DAWKINS The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before yo...
AL PACINO There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminat...
ED SMITH You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. A...
PATRICIA HEWITT We are talking Delavan here, but you never know, this way everyone in our community has a nice sense...
ANDREW BROOKS Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking
GRENVILLE KLEISER This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is...
JOE ARPAIO This was probably rooted in a belief that had been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was...
NEAL STEPHENSON Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks...
JOHN BURDETT Leadership requires talking about the right things and doing the right things, and sometimes you tak...
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JOHN BURNSIDE I feel great! It was months of hard work but I started talking to people way back in December and th...
DALE SUSLICK People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that's what you ...
NICK HORNBY It's been up and down, up and down. I know we can do it. . . . We've done a lot of talking, we've ma...
STEPHEN JACKSON We cannot continue talking about a way forward when we know the way forward is to change the constit...
LOVEMORE MADHUKU Quickly you learn it's way better to have fans talking and caring about you than not.
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JEFF LINDSAY Pero, por triste que sea, la vida no siempre imita al arte. -Dexter
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JEFF LINDSAY Cualquiera puede ser encantador si no le importa mentir y decir todas las cosas estúpidas, obvias y...
JEFF LINDSAY She stared at me "You have a message," she said. "On you machine."
I looked over at my answerin...
JEFF LINDSAY I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wai...
JEFF LINDSAY Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.
JEFF LINDSAY After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the c...
JEFF LINDSAY But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint d...
JEFF LINDSAY It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep...
JEFF LINDSAY It’s an odd term, 'girlfriend,' particularly for grown persons. And in practice it provides an eve...
JEFF LINDSAY Still, it's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful. It confirms my low opinion ...
JEFF LINDSAY the faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock...
JEFF LINDSAY …a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark...
JEFF LINDSAY When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultiva...
JEFF LINDSAY What a terrible thing life can be.
JEFF LINDSAY It really is better to be lucky than to be good.
JEFF LINDSAY It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that...
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