Quotes About Conversation

Somebody asked me the other day, 'What do you love the most about the show?' I said, 'The conversations that I have with my father in my head while I'm playing.' If I do something pretty good... I mean, I'm playing the gig and I'm saying in my head, 'Hey, check that one out, dad.'

Truth is, some of you aren't interested in a real conversation about race - you'd rather go on the attack for anyone that dares question your aggressive, divisive, and damaging agenda.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

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.

It's bad enough on a first date trying not to say something dumb without having three Secret Service guys with you.

I'm a constant waffler. I've said to anyone I've ever dated, 'Asking me to choose a restaurant is going to be a conversation that's going on for a while.'

You have to connect on emotion not logic. People go on dates and it becomes a CV exercise. Logic is someone asking 'what do you do for a job?' when you should ask 'why do you do that? What is it you enjoy?'

I like comedy that's not political but social, dealing with issues of people talking to each other. No matter what your politics, we still have to live with each other. Politics is taking a side. I'm not running for office, you know?

If I have a problem or am not happy about something, I have to be able to have an honest debate or conversation with somebody.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

Democratic debate must never end.

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.

This country is not going to progress if we can't have decent civil conversations and be respectful to one another.

I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide how much energy we would like to use in the future, and choose where we will get that energy from.

I just love listening to music and talking about it, so my social media is mostly dedicated to talking about songs and stuff that interests me.

When you see a comedian on stage, the best comedians make it feel like a conversation. But it's not. We have very little interest in what an audience has to say during a performance. Being a stand-up comedian, you're an egomaniac to some degree. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say, apparently. That's not how real relationships work.

I tell my stories the way I tell them in real life, the way I talk or describe things.

Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

For women, detailed conversation is our lifeblood, while for men it's just not as critical.

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

As an actor, you don't really have a say or a voice in what the conversation of the show is going to be. So, as an actor, I'm just trying to make sense of why the character is making these choices, and somehow, in that way, you can sympathize or root, at least not detest, what this person is doing. That's, at least, my job in telling that story.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.