Quotes About Discussion

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.

I think when you're talking about marriage equality and race, people very quickly start to get into their political corners: their ideology comes to the forefront, and they get into this platform argument that they're used to making, which really doesn't have anything to do with the day-to-day basics of what is being talked about.

I wasn't from a political family. Nobody talked politics.

Within my immediate creative community, I would say gender is something that I've always been interested in and always talked about.

Whenever anybody has talked about concussions, they immediately talk about me and Steve Young.

In football, as in life, as in business, everything can be talked about and discussed.

Larry Bird was a talker. He'd tell you something and you'd be like, are you kidding me? You're really telling me that?

We were a family of incredible talkers, readers, arguers.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for Obamacare.

We spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.

Labeling it 'political' is not going to stop me from talking about it.

We don't like talking about race in the U.K. - it's a very sensitive subject. People get extremely defensive and run for the covers, but I believe we have to talk about it.

I want people talking about me when I'm gone.

If we don't talk about the things that are happening, why are we talking about anything at all? Does something have to be a year old for me to have an opinion on it or a conversation with people about it?

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.

Sometimes a politician gets up and talks about British values and what we think that means, and we can be knocked down quite harshly, but I don't think we should be. I think we should be able to talk about British values and about immigration without people saying, 'Oh, you're just being like a crazed other party.'

I'm a Brit, so I come from a country where in the run-up to a general election, no one talks about abortion.