“Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.” PeopleSeemsGuyTalkingForeverComedyRight NowBoredFunny Guy Author:Bob Saget
“Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsStoriesAmericaFacesTalkingGoneCoupleTerribleRight NowDilemmaThrough The Years Author:Joan Lunden
“The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.” WayLooksCertainVoiceTalkingWorryRight NowHatsWardrobeVoice Over Author:Blair Underwood
“A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him.” FirstsTwoSchoolGuyActorsBlackActingTalkingComedyRight NowMurphyBrandoBlack Guys Author:Scott Raab
“It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility.” NeedsSeemsLiteratureResponsibilityTalkingHealthyRight NowLifestyleAttemptingPositivelyHealthy LifestyleMcdonalds Author:Maria Bartiromo
“I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsStillsSometimesThreeTalkingWorstHabitRight NowBasketballSittingTunesRudeSitting Still Author:Jennifer Lopez
“I frequently run into this, where I genuinely feel like - and this is not just my head cold talking right now - I often, and this is going to sound weird, but I often feel like the guy who makes these movies is smarter than me. Smarter than the guy on the phone right now.” FeelsRunningGuySoundTalkingColdRight NowPhonesSmarter Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.” WayWellsProblemTermWaterNumbersHalfTalkingMillionsHugeCoupleRight NowCrisisDecadesContamination Author:Josh Fox
“I'm in, like, dating Babylon. Like, I go on dates with men and, literally, like Sarah Palin will come up in like the first 20 minutes, and that doesn't put me in the mood. Like, talking about Sarah Palin. And they just want to know gossip, and I'm just kind of taking a little hiatus from dating right now, because I just don't want to talk about Sarah Palin.” KnowsMenWantFirstsKindLittlesTalkingMinutesGoes OnRight NowDatingCome UpMoodGossipPalinBabylonHiatus Author:Meghan McCain
“It was one of the first things I did on my own; I worked at McDonald's, raised the money and did it. I'm really, really passionate about pro-choice, because I wouldn't be here talking to you right now if I'd had a kid at 15.” IfsFirstsKidsChoicesMy OwnTalkingRight NowRaisedPassionateMcdonalds Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I love Thich Nhat Hahn. One of my favorite quotes of his (and I’m paraphrasing), he’s talking about cultivating happiness, and he was saying, at the very least, just be happy you’re not at the dentist right now. He was talking to someone who was having a really hard time finding joy.” HardJoyTalkingRight NowFindingsMy FavoriteHard TimesDentistCultivatingJust Be HappyTalking To SomeoneParaphrasing Author:Moby
“I had a period after touring the first record where I didn't agree with the way things worked in the music industry as far as how you release music, demand, the pace of everything. You don't know who's talking to you. Who's Spotify? Who's iTunes? Who are all those bloggers? Who says I have to do this? Why do you have to do all this press? Why do I have to do so many shows? Why do I have to do a regular album right now? I don't understand it.” KnowsWayFirstsShowsTalkingRecordsIndustryPeriodsRight NowDemandAgreePressesAlbumsReleasePaceTouringMusic IndustryBloggersItunesSpotify Author:Lykke Li
“Who are you talking to right now? Who is it you think you see? Do you know how much I make a year? I mean, even if I told you, you wouldn't believe it. Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work? A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up. Disappears. It ceases to exist, without me.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsBelieveMeanEnoughBigsHappensTalkingKnow HowRight NowDecidedDisappearCeaseDo You KnowInsightfulBellyCornered Author:Walter White
“I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.” TryingImportantBookPhilosophyReadingTalkingRight Now Author:Sammy Hagar
“At no time in the past, now or in the future has or will Russia take any part in actions aimed at overthrowing the legitimate government. I'm talking about something else right now - when someone does this, the outcome is very negative. Libya's state is disintegrated, Iraq's territory is flooded with terrorists, it looks like the scenario will be the same for Syria, and you know what the situation is in Afghanistan.” KnowsLooksDoeStatesGovernmentActionPastTalkingSituationRight NowNegativeIraqTerroristRussiaOutcomesTerritoryAfghanistanSyriaScenariosLibyaLegitimate Government Author:Vladimir Putin
“We have missiles - nuclear missiles - on hair-trigger alert. We should be in the business of nuclear disarmament right now, which neither of these candidates [Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton] are talking about.” ShouldTalkingHairTrumpRight NowClintonNuclearCandidatesTriggersMissilesDisarmamentNuclear DisarmamentNuclear Missiles Author:Jill Stein
“This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming backdrop when I was coming of age and when I was a kid growing up. I think we're living in one of those times right now where, in 20 years, people will be writing and talking about it.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsStillsMomentsKidsAgeTalkingGrowing UpGrowingCrazyHugeRight NowComing Of AgeWatergateKids Growing UpBackdropLooming Author:Patterson Hood
“Had "Malcolm in the Middle" been picked up I would not have been available for the pilot of "Breaking Bad." And right now someone else would be sitting in this chair talking to you. Not me.” Has BeensWould BeTalkingMiddleRight NowSittingAvailableChairsPilots Author:Bryan Cranston
“We ought to be talking about our democracy being under assault right now and what we're going to do about it and not what somebody said in July about James Comey. That's a distraction, that's not what's going on.” SaidTalkingDemocracyOughtRight NowDistractionAssaultJuly Author:James Carville
“If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.” IfsPoliticalArtistTalkingOpinionRight NowConcernedPolitical OpinionsTalking Politics Author:Amanda Palmer
“You wouldn't know that if you talked to Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or some of the international activist organizations. Certainly you wouldn't know that if you were talking to some of the writers who criticize our drone policy. But I've actually told my staff it's probably good that they stay critical of this policy, even though I think right now we're doing the best that we can in a dangerous world with terrorists who would gladly blow up a school bus full of American kids if they could.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldHumansKidsSchoolTalkingWatchesRightsDangerousPolicyRight NowOrganizationInternationalHuman RightsBlowCriticalTerroristCriticizeActivistBusStaffDronesAmnestyDangerous WorldSchool BusAmnesty International Author:Barack Obama
“One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that's the way to the future. I'm writing this book right now called Pallin' Around, and the subtitle is: "Talking to the Tea Party." And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it.” WayWritingKindBookTodayPartyTalkingClassChangedRight NowUnionsTeaKneesWorking ClassJerkTea Party1930sExhilaratingSubtitles Author:Bill Ayers
“I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what does that mean? The answer is he wants to be taken as a good guy. Your choice is between saying you're a feminist and raising a flag at a "Take Back the Night" rally and being a men's rights activist, which is basically the only two ways men have of talking about gender right now, I mean that's just ridiculous. That's just two extremes that are totally useless.” MenWayWantMeanDoeTwoNightGuyChoicesAnswersTalkingTakenRightsImagineCallingRight NowFeministExtremesGenderRidiculousUselessActivistFlagsTwo WaysGood GuyTwo Extremes Author:Stephen Marche
“I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia. Everywhere, people are talking about taking us back to the good old days. Whether that's the "caliphate," or Britain before the EU, or "Make America Great Again." But, we can't go back and many people wouldn't want to go back even if we could.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantAmericaPoliticalTalkingRight NowCrisisNostalgiaBritainOld DaysGood Old Days Author:Mohsin Hamid
“My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.” PeopleWantPersonsGirlSexSleepCitiesTalkingPositionChangedMomRight NowDatingMy MomJust OneKill MeSex And The CityMonogamous Relationship Author:Lindsay Lohan
“Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.” LooksKindMeanTalkingToo MuchCuttingRight NowSpendingBillionsWorriedBudgetsSpending Cuts Author:Paul Ryan