Discussing Quotes - Page 7

• I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

  William Mapother

  Possibility, Theory, English Major

  "Going on From Lost, Actor William Mapother Heads to Another Earth". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.

  Morgan Freeman

  Race, Subjects, Seems

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Angel, Numbers, House

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all.

  Ricky Gervais

  Never Fear, Subjects

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Brother, Husband, Plot Lines

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• I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Everyday, Toes, Topics

  "He's bringing home the bacon, from clubs to Super Bowl ads". "The Plain Dealer" Newspaper, February 9, 2007.

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• People would like to place a standard on our show that doesn't exist. We're not set up for reporting; we don't have an apparatus for that. We're discussing things that hopefully people might get something out of, but it's wildly inconsistent. Just because we hit on points that resonate, or people think are real complaints - that doesn't make us journalists.

  Jon Stewart

  Real, Thinking, People

  "No News is Good News" by Adam Bulger, The Hartford Advocate, June 12, 2008.

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• When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

  John von Neumann

  May, Language, Nervous

  "John Von Neumann, 1903-1957". Book edited by John C. Oxtoby, Billy J. Pettis and G. B. Price, 1958.

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• We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

  J. L. Austin

  Truth Is, Obsessed, Minimum

  "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 130), 1979.

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• I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

  Al Madrigal

  Writing, Phones, People

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• Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband.

  Anthony Trollope

  Husband, Views, Opposites

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.217

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• We have been discussing sin and the carnal nature from which disciples are getting free. However, we cannot get free by our own strength from these things. It takes our will to want to get free in order to please the Lord and be delivered from what is bringing so much death upon the world. However, we need God's grace and His power to live free of these things.

  Rick Joyner

  Order, Grace, Needs

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• We try to coordinate regularly with Russia, as well as with others - except for the United States - on what is happening in the region. And we're open to discussing with everybody the situation in Syria, because we believe it's a common threat.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Believe, Russia, Trying

  "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.

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• The Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach who helped write the immigration laws in Arizona said that [Donald] Trump's policy advisors are drafting, they're discussing drafting a proposal, to reinstate a registry for immigrants from Muslim countries.

  Megyn Kelly

  Country, Writing, Law

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• When I was discussing my role with other senior campaign folks, they would say, "I know you have four kids, but..." I said, "There's nothing that comes after the 'but' that makes any sense to me, so don't even try." Like, what is the "but"? But they'll eat Cheerios for the rest of life? Like, nobody will brush their teeth again until I get home? I mean, it just - what is the "but"? And I do politely mention to them that the question isn't, would you take the job? The male sitting across from me who's going to take a big job in the White House.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Senior, Jobs, Home

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don't have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That's the question.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, West, Terrorism

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Stars, Father, Unique

  Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Axis”, p.235, Macmillan

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• Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.

  Jim Butcher

  Divergent, Viewpoints, Way

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.181, Penguin

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• I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

  Carl Hilty

  Happiness, Believe, Bitter

  Carl Hilty (2013). “Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

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• Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

  George Gamow

  Problem, Made, Blunders

  George Gamow (1970). “My world line; an informal autobiography”, Viking Adult

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• I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.

  Alexei Panshin

  People, Facts, Ethical

  Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

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• Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Vegetarianism, Butchers

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• We're being taken advantage of because we have leaders who are incompetent. They don't even know. When I went out and told them you know in their trade deal they didn't even discuss the devaluation, they didn't even discuss it. At least they started discussing it, only because of me.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, Leader, Advantage

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.

  George Boateng

  Soccer, Football, Religious

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• I love doing things that are titillating. I think race can be very funny, and I think I'm very comfortable discussing it and bringing it up.

  Michael Rapaport

  Thinking, Race, Comfortable

  Source: www.avclub.com

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