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• The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.

  John Lennon

  Eye, Marijuana, Smoking

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• When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!" and so on.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Trying, Juggernaut

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• There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Bigs

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

  Dick Costolo

  Successful, Thinking, Safe

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• We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should, however, be accorded equality in that they should receive both compassion and respect; it is unworthy of us to exploit them in any way.

  Rebecca Hall

  Respect, Animal, Equality

  Rebecca Hall (1983). “Animals Are Equal: An Exploration of Animal Consciousness”, HarperCollins

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• If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

  Nick Nolte

  Age, Groups, Stories

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• We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

  Nick Nolte

  Feelings, World, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  People, Trying, Different

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2006.

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• The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

  Jack Buck

  Home, Games, Prison

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• In my column series 'The Main Thing,' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

  James L. Barksdale

  Technology, People, Way

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• Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Skills, People, Cookies

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• I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Needs, Roles, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think there are presences out there that we can't see or directly communicate with that have benevolent influence on us. Whether they're angels or something else, I'm not sure.

  Misha Collins

  Angel, Thinking, Influence

  "Misha Collins talks about ‘apocalyptic’ finale of ‘Supernatural’". Interview with Yvonne Villarreal, herocomplex.latimes.com. May 14, 2009.

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• My ex-husband and I, even though we're not together, we are 100 percent together in raising our kid. We communicate a lot and where I drop the ball and need him to pick it up or vice versa, he's there.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Husband, Kids, Together

  "Charisma Carpenter Talks 'The Lying Game' Shockers and More". Interview, okmagazine.com. February 26, 2013.

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• For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

  Jonathan Ames

  Book, Way, Feels

  "Bored To Death creator Jonathan Ames". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, tv.avclub.com. September 21, 2010.

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• Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Challenges, Generations, Friction

  "Embracing the Culture of a Younger Generation" by Raymond J. Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

  Linda Cardellini

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Communication, Able, Loved Ones

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• Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

  Viola Davis

  Hate, Capacity To Love, Humanity

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• No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

  Vicente Fox

  People, Doubt, Dresses

  Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. March 21, 2001.

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• The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.

  Vito Fossella

  People, Different, Needs

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• If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.

  Jeff Gannon

  Believe, White, Issues

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.

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• I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

  Namie Amuro

  People, Listening, Singing

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• That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

  Paul Allen

  Life Changing, Listening, Would Be

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