Quotes About Communication

And I would like to be a sign-language interpreter if I wasn't a Wiggle.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's is based on your GPS location, that's not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that's not a cellphone.

My secret weapon is my wife. She's the best judge. She's a scientist and a natural reader. We've developed a detailed code for how she marks a manuscript, and I think it's what saves me from wild digressions.

To be selling out shows and these kids who don't speak English singing along every word? It's wild.

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

I think anyone in a relationship has to deal with temptation if they're being honest with themselves. People don't talk about it very much, but it's very honest. Guys and girls both have temptation.

There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

Anyone that has a microphone, that temptation for the voice to be bigger than the message is always there.

Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering.

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.

The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It's tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can't do that.

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.