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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.
I didn't set out to win an Oscar, of course, but to be in this conversation, it's somehow an honour and a strange life experience as well.
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!
I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.
Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.
I'm not a 'celebrity'. I'm not a big huge star and so when people see me it's usually to talk about something I've done and that's a great conversation to have.
If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared.
Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.
Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
Really, at the end of the day, if I want to keep God part of the conversation then I will do everything I can to make that happen.
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
'The Anthill' is the podcast wing of The Conversation, the site that presents news and views derived from the academic and research community.
It's almost impossible that an argument would naturally form the kind of arch that it does in 'Lifespan'. So, the conversation is constructed.
The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'
I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible.
I am thrilled and honored to have a seat at the table for meaningful conversation with so many accomplished women in the sports world.
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.
Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.
I think unless we have an honest conversation about race and identity in this country, we're never going to get anywhere.
I was so fortunate to be raised in a household filled with books and - as you might imagine to be the case in the Bush home - plenty of conversation.
I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
Just ended a conversation with one of America's most famous atheists with "God bless you." Couldn't help it. And I meant it. And he knew it.
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it that it resonates deeply in some way.
I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.
As a member of the often maligned fourth estate, it is so refreshing to have a conversation instead of a buttoned up interview in a stifling studio.
Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies
It's all about knowing when to listen to that conversation and - without sounding really hokey - when to tune it out and follow your heart.
My position in life has always been to be that person in the room who can make the conversation and break down any awkwardness.
Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.
I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
My concept of a perfect date, really, is just as long as conversation is fun, and you can be yourselves and feel comfortable around each other.
Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.
I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.
I couldn't have a better resource than my brother. He's one of the smartest guys you'll have a conversation with. He knows so much about so many different things.
I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.
This thing happened where I noticed anytime I got together with four friends or more, the conversation goes to food.
It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.
No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.
Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
The first conversation I ever had about the Internet was in 1993 with Robert Wright, who was then a colleague at the 'New Republic.'
Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
