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• It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.

  Richard Rosen

  Names, Ego, Needs

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• You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Wisdom, Impact, Walking Away

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• We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Forget, Dead Man

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• Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

  Ann Beattie

  Thinking, Tea, Hollywood

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• To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

  Rowan Williams

  Communication, Journalism, Social

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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• This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

  Mike DeWine

  People, Constitution, Courses

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• I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

  Izaak Walton

  Fishing, Rivers, Discourse

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 18

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• No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Qualified, Converses

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• I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

  Zach Braff

  Worry, Insecurity, Driven

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• What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

  Vincent McNabb

  Delight, Speech

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• The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Europe, Secure

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• I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

  Holly Johnson

  Thinking, Troops, Topics

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• You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

  Wayne Rogers

  Eye, People, Meals

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• My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.

  David Krumholtz

  Father, Crazy, Parent

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• I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

  James Daly

  Artist, People, Privilege

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• We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Football, Writing, Wine

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• Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Students, Workshops

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

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• Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hands, Order, People

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• I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

  James Lipton

  Talking, Able, Way

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• There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

  Agatha Christie

  Dangerous

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

  Paul Weyrich

  Children, Years, Parent

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• The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

  Winston Churchill

  Girl, Doe, Language

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• There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Communication, Musician, Roles

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• Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Want, Leisure

  W. Somerset Maugham (2015). “The Trembling of a Leaf: Stories of the South Sea Islands”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Talking, Sublime

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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