Conversation Quotes - Page 18

• I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.

  Tom Robbins

  Giving, Toasters, Want

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• Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.

  Dave McKean

  Powerful, Editing, Play

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

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• I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Kids, Thinking, Impact

  Source: wwd.com

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• [Stanley] Kubrick was a fascinating, larger than life guy who had been a friend for many years prior to our working together on that film. I found the best part of working with him to be the long conversations we had between set-ups.

  Sydney Pollack

  Years, Long, Guy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of food - we've been educated by fabulous books, like Fast Food Nation and documentaries like Food Inc. But despite these and other great projects that shine a critical light on the topic, every year the food industry spends literally tens of millions of dollars to shape the public conversation about our food system.

  Anna Lappe

  Book, Thinking, Impact

  "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

  Teju Cole

  Empathy, Looks, Gaps

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Book, Ideas, Space

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• You can say, 'Can I use your bathroom?' and nobody cares. But if you ask, 'Can I use the plop-plop machine?' it always breaks the conversation.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Humor, Machines

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• Then you get these articles about how unhealthy life is in the city. You know; mobile phone tumours - far more likely in the city. Well you know what, so is everything else! Including sex, coffee and conversation.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Sex, Coffee

  "Dylan Moran: Like, Totally". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Cake

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• If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.

  Atul Gawande

  Thinking, People, Ifs

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• I'm an American so its kind of hard for me to talk about 9/11. So whenever someone brings it up in a conversation, I say "I didn't like 9/11."

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Kind

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• M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.

  Sam Altman

  Fun, Killers, Acquisition

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• A girl can talk about my nose, my teeth or my accent - anything that gets a conversation going is fine with me. It is weird, though, the way women respond to my body. Maybe 50 percent respond positively right away, while another 25 or 30 percent need a while to adjust to my size and to realize that ordinarily my muscles are soft, just like anyone's, only bigger.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Teeth, Needs

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

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• Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's.

  Perry Brass

  Appreciate, Entertainment, Tvs

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.26, Perry Brass

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• I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical.

  Dean Spade

  War, Teaching, Reading

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?

  Ariana Grande

  Judging, Ass, Sexuality

  "Ariana Grande isn't writing a 'Bulls - T' breakup Anthem about Big Sean" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. September 23, 2015.

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• In today's world of blogging and tweeting, conversation has become a bit more staccato. In many ways we're more efficient, but I think the amount of longer conversations that radiated more warmth may have gone down.

  Indra Nooyi

  Thinking, Gone, World

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy, and realizing that freedom is just the beginning of the conversation, that's something I've learned.

  Trevor Noah

  Taken, America, Democracy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Remember, Novel

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• I think it could be argued that I am not heard, in the broadest sense. That is not my concern. My concern, a question really, is, do I have the courage to speak? If I speak I believe someone will respond. It then becomes my responsibility to listen to that person. And in listening, together we create a space where people can be heard. It's the conversation that I care most deeply about; this is the space I want to honor, respect, and protect. This is my faith in the open space of democracy.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Deng Xiaoping thought of himself as a great revolutionary and a great reformer. He had dismantled the Chinese communist management of the economy. In my next-to-last conversation with him, which was about six months before Tiananmen Square, he said to me that his aim would be the next phase to reduce the Communist Party to philosophical issues. And I said, "What's a philosophical issue?" And he said, "Well, like if we make an alliance with Russia." Given his view of Russia, that was not the likeliest thing that would ever happen.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Philosophical, Party, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people.

  Margaret Cho

  Race, White, People

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.

  Jonah Hill

  People

  "Jonah Hill On Set Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK – Also Talks THE ADVENTURER’S HANDBOOK, His Career, Sequels, and SO Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 13, 2010.

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