Quotes About Dialogue

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.

I'm not a politician, I'm not in Congress. You know what I mean? I'm just a black girl that makes YouTube videos and tries to teach dialogue in campuses so they think before stepping into a voting booth.

I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.

Going from dialogue-driven 'New Tricks' to a movie like 'The Machine' which has special effects has been brilliant.

Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.

Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarming humour, in its evocation of a family divided by sexism and racism in 1960s Nigeria.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

If the so called 'democratic' individuals out there really believe in their talk about diversity, they should let those with truly different opinions be allowed to talk freely in public, too.

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.

We believe that transparency is needed to create trust, and it's also needed to create a dialogue.

I've always had it inside - this ability to read people, how to get into someone else's head and help them with their problems. And I love when people trust me with their feelings and I can get into any kind of dialogue with them about their inner stuff. I think it's the thing I enjoy most besides modeling.

Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an awesome learning experience - I grew up watching Spike's movies, and here he was giving me handwritten notes about structure and dialogue. His feedback taught me so much about how to craft a cinematic narrative.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.