- Nov 07, 2020
Conversation Quotes
Talk worth having, and talk worth protecting.
One line here questions why private conversation was never explicitly protected in the Constitution, while another simply prefers talk that stays easy rather than turning into a battle of opinions. See Communication quotes for related lines.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a Trump guy, but I do like what he's done with political speak. He's changed the conversation quite a bit. It's interesting to watch that happen.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.
- Focused
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve.
- Nov 07, 2020
I once interviewed Anthony Burgess on the radio. I played pop records between the conversation.
- Cognizant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.'
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though standup seems like one-way conversation, if you're doing it right, it's actually a two-way discussion between the comic and the audience... the audience just happens to be communicating through laughter.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020