Conversation Quotes - Page 37

• After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge mathematical tripos. A very sensitive mathematics don recommended that I talk to the historian of astronomy, Michael Hoskin, and the conversation led me to enroll in the History and Philosophy of Science for my final undergraduate year.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophy, Years, Two

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem that sparks the ethical project lies in our limited responsiveness to one another. The only way we have to address that problem is through a representative, informed, and engaged conversation.

  Philip Kitcher

  Lying, Animal, Fundamentals

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt to find a position with which all can live, brings the expert and the public dimensions together.

  Philip Kitcher

  Views, Perspective, Together

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophy, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think the way the country has changed in part because of the presidency of Barack Obama, I think in part because of what we`ve - the violence that we have seen on our cell phones and our TV sets over the last couple of years. I think Black Lives Matter has helped to force these issues. Women like Sabrina Fulton. We`re having a different conversation in this country right now about race and what it means to really understand your experience is and my experience is.

  Killer Mike

  Country, Couple, Mean

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I was a member of the band when it was just, like, a conversation at a bar. Then we constantly practiced, we played shows, we tooled around in the studio. And then, when I moved and kind of bailed on that, is when... So, yeah, for the first, 'Mass Romantic,' I was heavily involved. Then, for a couple records after that, I was not really involved at all.

  Dan Bejar

  Couple, Firsts, Bars

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.

  Marianne Williamson

  Meaningful, Night, Talking

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And the [car] accident made sure that I didn't have to go up there. But I think he and I both shared that.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Distance, Writing, Thinking

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• I believe that the American people ought to be part of the conversation about what's happening in our economy, and what's happening in Washington and what's happening on Wall Street.

  Alison Stewart

  Wall, Believe, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

  David Longstreth

  Thinking, America, People

  "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

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• My conversations with Trump supporters have left me with more questions than answers.

  Max Lucado

  Answers, Trump, Left

  "Pastor Max Lucado Baffled Over Evangelical Trump Supporters". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 6, 2016.

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• I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body is in my life, and I feel like it's modern to mix. I don't really understand, when we have so much conversation about the barriers being broken down, how you can have one side of the store and the other side of the store, and men's wear is cheaper.

  Hari Nef

  Men, Broken, Way

  Source: wwd.com

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• We don't really listen to what the other person is saying. We have gotten used to information being in such a concentrated form all the time, and so continuously, that conversation somehow seems inadequate for a lot of people, and therefore they can't join in it. You notice how many people can't argue anymore - without getting very upset.

  John Gimlette

  People, Upset, Information

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.

  Florence Welch

  Real, Nerves, Life Is

  "Florence and the Machine Announce New LP". Interview with Ryan Dombal, www.buzzandmusic.com. August 23, 2011.

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• In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

  Florence Welch

  Anxious, Stuck, Knows

  "Florence and the Machine Announce New LP". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 23, 2011.

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• When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yourself, and that's where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.

  Alan Palomo

  Ideas, Mind, Honest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.

  Britta Phillips

  Feelings, Negative, Want

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• There's nothing more fun than feeling frequencies and learning about equipment - everybody should do that. But if you're going to put your heart into an album and you want to give it to the world and add to the conversation, I think it's really important to take your time.

  Tamaryn

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I remember my mom had a conversation with Sam Jackson about what she should do with our careers and what the next step should be; I was eight and my brother was nine. He said, "You need to get them on Broadway."

  Aldis Hodge

  Mom, Brother, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The record's about not her. It's about my struggles through years of dealing with the aftermath of lost love and longing and just mediocrity and just bad news, like life stuff. And in the [record], where the title comes from, the lyrics are actually a conversation between me and another girl, not this Emma character.

  Justin Vernon

  Girl, Lost Love, Struggle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.

  Feist

  Simple, Roots, Pleasure

  Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2006.

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• I've gotten a lot of young gay kids come up to me and talk to me about how the little things I've said in the press has helped them come out to their parents, or just be open with who they are, and feeling invigorated by that. So that honestly means a lot to me to hear that the things that I say in the press, they do hear, and they see, and it helps them at least to start the conversation.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mean, Kids, Gay

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.

  Alek Wek

  Two, People, Want

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Prayer, Firsts, Persons

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I think now we're seeing the pendulum switch back to this idea where conversations are more important, if not more important than documents.

  Khoi Vinh

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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