He added that while families used to spend a lot of time talking, the advent of the internet and TV had worsened communication skills because there is a "lack of opportunity" to talk.
"We spend a lot of time talking about keeping guns out of the wrong hands, "she said.
Of course there are plenty of times when talking is a waste of time.
And I think that's why one of the things the President will spend quite a bit of time talking about in the State of the Union are those new rules, what he would find acceptable on that.
We spent a decent amount of time talking internally about what the right sort of content for this session was.
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NPR's Deborah Amos has spent a lot of time talking with Iraqi refugees in that part of the world, and she did a big series on the refugees for NPR's MORNING EDITION last week.
The last big benefit of talking instead of typing is saving time.
The President spent a lot of time talking publicly about the issues that he thinks are at stake in this election and are worthy of an important political debate about the future of the country, and that is something that he feels a responsibility to do.
We spent a lot of time here just talking about the logistics of the response on the shore as oil begins to come in.
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But we spent, in particular, a lot of time talking about the START treaty.
Griffith spends a lot of time talking up the DIY ethos to kids at museums and tech conventions.
Cook spent a considerable amount of time talking about his predecessor, Steve Jobs, who died last year from pancreatic cancer.
The bigger challenge for the rookie host: She's going to spend a lot of time talking about movies most people haven't seen.
We have not honestly spent a lot of time talking about that.
In my experience, spending a lot of time talking about how great you are is not going to help you win new business.
"Larry and Sergey and I have spent a lot of time talking about how to run everything, " Schmidt said on Thursday's earnings call.
Unusually for a physicist, Mr Vedral spends a fair bit of time talking about religious views, such as how God created the universe.
Have you ever noticed leaders spend a lot of time talking about talent, only to make the same mistakes over and over again?
You didn't hear them spend a lot of time talking about young people and the debt that they're incurring when they go to college.
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Joe has found that if you want to sleep with a woman you have to spend a lot of time talking to her about her interests.
We spend enormous amount of time talking to people, trying to help them understand their objectives, to quantify their risk tolerances and to understand what's happening in markets.
Mr. MCCANTS: Yeah, he spends a lot of time talking about public relations, and he says this is what the jihadis have really failed to do in the past.
But Renault is also spending a lot of time talking to and doing deals with power companies and governments (which are under intensifying pressure to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide).
So it was appropriate that we spent a lot of time talking about Twitter, given how it's become perhaps the fastest tool for people to share news with the world.
Senator DURBIN: You know, I could spend a lot of time talking about how we reached this point, but most Americans want to look forward, and we should look forward as a country.
But every demand creator spends an inordinate amount of time talking to customers, trying to find out what their hassles are, and thinking about what things that irk them today could be turned into delight tomorrow.
Jeffrey Molitor, Vanguard's overseer of outside managers, says he and his staff spend a lot of time talking to potential managers to understand how they make decisions and whether they have an approach that's likely to let them beat the market.
This has become -- the example I use a lot is we spent a lot of time talking about so-called death panels, right, that time after time after time after time have been disproven that are in the bill.
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