- People
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- 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.
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- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was told by my mother at the age of five that I was going to be a doctor, and that was the end of the conversation. I was presented with a toy stethoscope and told to learn how to use it.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, we writers find the perfect research material. I can't overstate how how precious that feels - it's as though you're having an intimate conversation with someone who has the key to unlock your project.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.
- Nov 07, 2020
I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a real conversation. And I know that people... like to eavesdrop on a conversation.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My colleagues and I were always having the same conversation in the teachers lunchroom about books we wanted our students to read, a field trip we knew would really bring a subject matter to life... And most of us would go into our own pockets to buy just paper and pencils.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how me having a conversation with Tomi Lahren all of a sudden turned into me hating black women.
- Better Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind have an uncomfortable conversation if those uncomfortable conversations can lead to a bigger dialogue and help us get to a better understanding of whatever it is we are discussing.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020