Conversation Quotes
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I don't care what they do. I've said what I had to say about it. I'm done with it.
Gary Sheffield
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Every night I try to look at the audience and treat every audience differently. It's almost like it's a single entity or a person. I always try to treat it like a conversation and allow it to happen naturally in the same way that you would engage in conversation.
Matt Shultz Cage the Elephant
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I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.
William Mapother
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One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."
Donald Glover
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Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police yelling at us or freaking us out. Street posters allowed you to have the last word.
Eric Drooker
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People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.
Mike Farrell
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That was the most congenial conversation I think I've ever had with anybody. What I was saying to him there was, 'I think you can help the football team' - that's when my finger came out. I said, 'Look, you can help this football team. You can rush the punter.' But I was also telling him, 'Now, this is what you need to do in order to do that.
Joe Gibbs
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…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Undoubtedly our Heavenly Father tires of expressions of love in words only. He has made it clear through his prophets and his word that his ways are ways of commitment, and not conversation. He prefers performance over lip service. We show our true love for him in proportion to our keeping his words.
Marvin J. Ashton
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Keep each person separate in your heart. Don't have two sex patterns going at the same time. And don't ever join a conversation about something you know nothing about.
Elsa Lanchester
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson
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I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
Damon Lindelof
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What do you call it when a straight person comes out? ... A conversation.
Bill Konigsberg
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This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.
Eddie Condon
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Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.
Studs Terkel
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I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.
Kristen Stewart
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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
Oscar Wilde
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I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece.
Hedda Hopper
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Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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I carry condoms in my purse, even though I haven't had sex in a long time. I'm hoping for luck! And I carry them so I can give them to other people who might want or need them, or who might want to have a conversation.
Sharon Stone
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
William Shakespeare
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I can tell you it makes a big difference to have a director who is collaborative. What motivates a character in my mind could be completely different from what the director's thinking. You have to have those conversations ahead of time and throughout the process. It affects the performance.
Nia Long
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When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.
Rachel Kushner