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• By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction and all of the unfortunate consequences that surround it.

  Kristi Funk

  Pain, People, Addiction

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm old enough to remember the days when you spoke to one person from one outlet and that was the conversation. But now what happens is you speak to people and what you say gets translated into Portuguese, then into Mandarin, through a German prism and then back into English and bears little to no resemblance between - to the exchange or - that you had initially with the journalist or to what you originally said.

  Cate Blanchett

  People, Littles, Bears

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to watch TV and write things that people would say and now I tend to get it more out of books and from conversations with people I meet.

  Thighpaulsandra

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. By studying French in an academic setting, you get to know a lot about it, but typically, you can't express yourself well or have an interesting conversation with it.

  Seymour Papert

  Interesting Conversation, Important, Study

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.

  Eddie Vedder

  Dream, Song, Ukulele

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• I would say there is a conversation happening between your body and mind all the time. Even when you're sleeping, your body is communicating the information to your mind. And so to me it feels like, why not harness that? If it's happening all the time, why not control the content of the conversation?

  Amy Cuddy

  Sleep, Mind, Why Not

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Pharoahe Monch is a long time supporter of my music and I'm a long time supporter of his music so when we met each other it was almost like a natural occurrence.I met him before a few years earlier and we were just politicking with each other and we had a conversation about possibly doing something but our schedules have always been in conflict.

  Immortal Technique

  Years, Long, Schedules

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Quentin [Taranino] will say, "We've got it, but we're gonna do it one more time. Why?" And then, the entire cast and crew chimes in and says, "Because we love making movies!" He is a person who celebrates this form of expression, and it is evident in his movies, his conversations, his extensive knowledge about the history of what we do, and the actors and crew that he assembles.

  Walton Goggins

  Expression, Actors, Love Making

  Source: collider.com

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• Watching the news inspires me to keep going and reminds me why I should never complain. I'm inspired by those who don't let others define them: Martin Luther King Jr., James Dean, Vincent Van Gogh, Hillary Clinton, Tennessee Williams, director Steve McQueen. They've all changed the conversation by making their voices heard.

  Robert Piper

  Kings, Voice, Inspire

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• People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

  Peter Hedges

  People, Audience

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• One of the things about crowd work that's so exciting is when you discover a character in the audience who's interesting or funny, who you can vibe off of. If someone's got a weird job that you can make reference to throughout, or you can bring that person onstage - humiliate them, or celebrate them! You can put people in conversation with one another. The best is when something that they're doing can reflect back on something that you're doing.

  John Hodgman

  Jobs, Character, People

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• I get inspired by so many things every single day. Things I see every day, conversations, arguments, day to day occurrences, good days, bad days, loneliness, happiness, anger, anxiety, pressure, relationships......EVERYTHING.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Loneliness, Good Day, Bad Day

  Beauty and Lace Interview, entertainment.beautyandlace.net. September 4, 2009.

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• My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  Thinking, Criticism, Musician

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• Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.

  Natasha Leggero

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Talking

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• Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Men, Sick

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• Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ironic, Everyday, Flippant

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

  Hugh Leonard

  Confused, Mad, Silence

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• When you meet someone for the first time instead of asking them what they do, you should ask them what they've always wanted to do. This conversation will be much more interesting.

  Dallas Clayton

  Interesting, Asking, Firsts

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• I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball game, I'll probably talk to everyone there. That's different. But on the outside world, if I don't know you and you don't know me, I probably cannot sit there and have a conversation.

  Emily Rios

  Basketball, Games, Different

  "Q&A – Emily Rios (Andrea)". AMC Network Interview, www.amc.com. 2010.

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• We need to pay attention to the questions non-Christians are asking, and the conversations that Christians are having.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Needs, Attention

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• Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

  Deborah Tannen

  Mean, People, Littles

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Morality, Privacy, Apocalypse

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• As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.

  Renita J. Weems

  Giving, Silence, Depth

  Renita J. Weems (2000). “Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

  Edward Burtynsky

  People, Wish, Sustainability

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• Always remember that no matter what anyone is saying to you from the outside, the most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself on the inside.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Important, Matter, Remember

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