Some of their leeriness is cultural--a fast-talking money guy horning in on an insular society.
But this is Peter Diamandis, the fast-talking, hand-chopping impresario of the tech and space worlds.
Jackson was soft-spoken, shy, socially inept -- everything the fast-talking and personable Clinton was not.
In fact, the idea for the fast-talking dragon (with Eddie Murphy's voice) came from Roy Disney, chairman of the animation department.
The election of Mr Serwotka, a hitherto unknown benefits agency worker and fast-talking union official in Leeds, was a big surprise.
At the center of his cast is Nutty the Squirrel, a fast-talking puppet that sounds like Mr. Maynard on caffeine and helium.
When he arrived in Turin, in 1953, the 25-year-old southerner had to win the confidence of northern Italians wary of fast-talking Neapolitans.
Note the fast-talking voiceover at the end of most promotional auto ads.
The Egyptian government, intent on suppressing its own Islamists, had felt threatened by Sudan's Islamist power-behind-the-throne, Hassan Turabi, the sharp, fast-talking speaker of parliament.
Younger voters may prefer the Greens (who won a seat in the European election in June) or Syriza, a left-wing splinter group run by Alexis Tsipras, a fast-talking, 30-something biker.
Muxlim's founder, Mohamed El-Fatatry is the Muslim equivalent of Mark Zuckerberg, a fast-talking 22-year-old based in Finland with visions of tapping a largely untouched Muslim user base around the world.
Frustrated that his cast couldn't fit the dialogue into a single shot, Mr. Eastwood took a cue from Howard Hawks's fast-talking screwball comedy to punch up a brooding Boston-set crime melodrama.
The fight could have been ripped from a script for the HBO show "Entourage, " one of whose characters, a fast-talking talent agent played by Jeremy Piven, was inspired by Mr. Emanuel.
"Embassies are the visible face of our country, " says Yale's fast-talking dean of art, Robert Storr, who moonlights as chairman of the organization's professional fine arts committee and guides its curatorial mission.
Led by the fast-talking David McCourt , RCN (as in Residential Communications Network) once bragged it would wire up 9 million cable, phone and Internet users among 25 million homes mostly in the northeastern corridor.
The one-joke-for-all-people theory is the reason why Mr Izzard, who came to the fore as a motor-mouthed transvestite, thought he could play Bruce, the fast-talking, short-lived, stand-up comedian who became famous in the early 1960s for saying the unsayable.
Instead of talking of investing in infrastructure, how about a plan to fast-track capabilities within the US and European workforce.
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Even Democratic House leader Dick Gephardt, an opponent of the stalled fast-track proposal and a likely rival to Vice President Al Gore in 2000, is talking about offering an alternative.
Six months ago people were talking about overheating in Malaysia and Thailand -- now they are saying the economies are cooling too fast.
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