Talk Is Cheap Quotes

• The heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

  Bob Marley

  Sweet, Victory, Battle

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• Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fun, Work, Program

  "First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?". Interview with Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. March 2, 1998.

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• Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

  Walter Raleigh

  Vanity, Talking, Deeds

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.

  Howard Berman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Talking

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• Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Eye, Inspire

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• Talk is cheap, let's go play.

  Johnny Unitas

  Play

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• Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Communication

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• Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.

  Tonya Hurley

  Love You, People, Phrases

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• Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.

  Cesar Chavez

  Believe, Everyday, Use

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.353, Penguin

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• As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Sweet, Men

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• Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

  Linus Torvalds

  Coders, Linux, Programming

  Linux kernel mailing list message, lkml.org. August 25, 2000.

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• The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

  Jonathan Alter

  Ideas, Journalism, Problem

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• Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Cost, Next

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• In a Republican primary every candidate is going to come in front of you and say I'm the most conservative guy that ever lived. Goshdarnit, whodidily, I'm conservative. You know what, talk is cheap. The word tells us you shall know them by their fruits ... Look every candidate in the eye and say 'Don't talk, show me.'

  Ted Cruz

  Eye, Guy, Looks

  "White House: We don't negotiate with terrorists". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2015.

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• If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we'd see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn't want to have a South African situation ... there'd be none. If white people in America didn't want segregation, there'd be none ... it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, White

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• Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

  Cullen Hightower

  Government, Political, Liberty

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• If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.

  Gelek Rimpoche

  Running, Compassion, Practice

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• Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.

  Jon Foreman

  Tabloids, Scream

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• They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better—it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Kindness, Giving, Wonder

  Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Every Republican will tell you they are for school choice, shrinking government, cutting the government workforce and getting rid of Common Core. But talk is cheap. Talk is just talk. I haven't just talked about these things. I've actually done these things.

  Bobby Jindal

  School, Cutting, Government

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop.

  Henny Youngman

  Communication, Thinking, Cop

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• We still wading in the water...
  Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water.
  Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it to my father,
  Used to take the bullets out so I could play with the revolver.
  Satan serenading ever since I was a toddler,
  Tell 'em talk is cheap...niggas living for the dollar.

  Vince Staples

  Father, Rap, Play

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• The last thing that you need to fret about is my feeling emasculated, Kitten; but talk is cheap, so I'll be sure to show you later." ~Bones

  Jeaniene Frost

  Feelings, Needs, Lasts

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• You just ignore it! It's not that you don't care anymore, it's that you stop listening and paying attention to it. Because everybody has an opinion. Talk is cheap - it's free! And I say that like, if you don't like the stuff I have to say, pay me no mind - it will cost you nothing.

  Donald Faison

  Listening, Mind, Attention

  Interview with Paul Eide, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2016.

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