Discussion Quotes

• Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Understanding
  • Memories
  • Authority

• When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's exciting to me is the prospect of going from worst to first in a forward-moving transformation which is going to take groups of dispossessed black folks here and others and make us controllers of our own destiny.

  

  Chokwe Lumumba
  • Worst
  • Transformation
  • Exciting

• Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor.

  

  David B. Rivkin
  • Important
  • Political
  • Conflict

• We asked a lot of questions and we watched everyone who was working in the studio. And we had an opportunity to sit in on discussions, aesthetic discussions at the pottery, which took place generally over tea breaks in the morning and afternoon. So we learned a lot just from being around there with Bernard Leach.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Opportunity
  • Morning
  • Break

• You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.

  

  Eugene Jarecki
  • Politics
  • Discussion
  • Ronald Reagan

• A safe rule where Jewish propaganda is concerned is to multiply or divide their figures by ten, at least, before accepting them as the basis for discussion.

  

  Arnold Leese
  • Discussion
  • Jewish
  • Propaganda

• The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Stories
  • Emotion
  • Conversation

• Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Machines
  • Minorities
  • Productions

• The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.

  

  Charles Kay Ogden
  • Language
  • Magic
  • Belief

• We have to identify everybody that's here, and there's going to be an appropriate discussion in Congress on how to deal with an individual who has been here maybe for some long period of time. Amnesty is not on the table period. There will be no amnesty in the United States. We're a country of law and the idea that we're going to tell people that somehow or another that that's all forgiven is not going to happen. How we deal with them is a conversation. I don't know if I know all the answers. I want to talk to the American people.

  

  Rick Perry
  • People
  • Country
  • Individual

• Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

  

  Gerrit Smith
  • Free
  • Enemy
  • Discussion

• For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Strong
  • Discussion
  • Controversial

• Every director is different and they all have different styles. I've worked with directors who were very specific and they gave a lot of direction. The one thing about Michael Haneke that I think is interesting is that he really has a reason for everything he's asking you. If you challenge it, he is open for discussion but he has a clear idea of what he wants with reasons why.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Style

• To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

  

  George Tenet
  • Patience
  • Discussion
  • Iraq

• There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

  

  Gerrit Smith
  • Right
  • Poor
  • Discussion

• I don't really know where the rumors started. They just started. Because I saw a number of people rumored for the role and there was never any discussion, never any conversations. I think Chadwick Boseman is a great actor. I saw Get on Up and he killed that role. So, I think he's going to do a great job.

  

  Morris Chestnut
  • Actor
  • Rumors
  • Conversations

• Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Fit
  • Discussion

• I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some Hollywood studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Guy
  • Sometimes
  • Film

• Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, fame. It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Word
  • Fame
  • Discussion

• There was some discussion, but nothing got close to being a reality. They asked for a lot and got a lot from the White Sox.

  

  Eric Wedge
  • Reality
  • Discussion
  • White Sox

• The big idea behind it was to somehow participate in the discussion about justice. What does it mean to be just to the others out there whose lives we do not think about. One of the answers I came up with was simply tell their stories.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Justice
  • Answers
  • Behinds

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