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When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.
One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.
Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.
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."
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.
The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere - television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.
To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.
I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.
You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.
Before I collaborate, it's important that I have a conversation about what I care about before we make anything, so that it's very clear.
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.
I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!
I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.
Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.
Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing.
The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.
When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.
It's nice to be able to have a conversation with someone and know there's nothing they can gain from me, nothing I'm looking for from them.
When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.
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.
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.
I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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.
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.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.
Of course you cannot compare my Hindi with a Hindi-speaking person, but I am confident enough to hold a conversation in mixed Hindi-English.
I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.
That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!
He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
'The Conversation' was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.
I'm always willing to have a conversation about strengthening our national security in a long-term, comprehensive, and cost-effective manner.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections." "Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do.
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.
You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!
I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.