Conversation Quotes
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I needed reassurance from the doubts that were beginning to surface in my mind since I'd first given voice to them in conversation with Amy.
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I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.
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If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .
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Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.
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When you arrive unexpectedly at someone’s house you go in through the front door, often after making sure you’ve got a couple of mates waiting round the back. For a business, especially the kind that involves big trucks and heavy metal, it’s always better to go in through the back. The customer-facing part of any modern business is purposely designed to be as politely unhelpful as possible. If you go in from the rear, the customer-facing staff are all facing the wrong way and everybody starts their conversation on the back foot.
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Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
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My Finnish is... I'm sounding like a three-year-old, at my best. It's super hard to really have a conversation, unfortunately. I know a lot of words, and so reading signs and stuff is becoming better, or going to a supermarket. But some specific words, of course, you don't get in your first year.
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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
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It's annoying when you're trying to have dinner with your friends, and people come over constantly and ask for your autographs. When I was younger, I'd stand and wait three hours if I had to. I wouldn't think of butting into their conversation or anything like that. Loss of privacy is the biggest thing I don't like.
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It's really important to look at yourself in the mirror and have a conversation. Tell yourself you're beautiful every single day. Even if you're not feeling that great in an outfit, but you like how your hair looks, focus on that.
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So we do nothing? --Claire We do the best nothing you've ever seen. --Michael
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Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else.
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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.
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People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?"
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We need to start prioritizing people, not polar bears. We're probably less adaptable than them, anyway. The farther you are from the Beltway, the more you can have a conversation about climate no matter how people vote. I never try to politicize the issue.
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The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.
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We had a couple of good talks. That's the only statement I want to make.
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I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!
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Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
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I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.
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I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.
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A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
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Having a conversation with you is like a Martian talking to a Fungo.
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That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
