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• Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Thinking, Errors, Media

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• Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Kids, Years, Would Be

  POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

  Jacques Lacan

  Men, Splits, May

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• Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

  Jaron Lanier

  Practice, Vapid, Video

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• I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Donald Knuth, Grady Booch, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Vint Cerf (2011). “Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World”, p.44, BCS, The Chartered Institute

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• Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

  Annie Lennox

  Opportunity, Platforms, Certain

  "Annie Lennox trying to get world to see changing face of AIDS". Interview with Christiane Amanpour, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2010.

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• A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

  Matthew Lesko

  Lying, White, Degrees

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• Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.

  Christian Louboutin

  Thinking, Shoes, People

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• A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

  James Madison

  Men, Liberty, Opinion

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.478

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• But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

  Armistead Maupin

  Opportunity, Phones, Cells

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• I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Real, Lying, Hands

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• The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Important, Obscurity

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.246, New Directions Publishing

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• No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pleasure, Without Communication

  Michel De Montaigne, James B Atkinson, David Sices (2012). “Selected Essays: With La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

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• Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

  Eugenio Montale

  Reflection, Solitude, Radio

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• That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Inconvenience, Music Business

  "The Importance of Being Morrissey". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2003.

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• We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Learning, Voice, Our Words

  Inaugural Address, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. January 20, 1969.

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• I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

  Adam Oates

  Hypocrite, Player, Boss

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• Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

  Conor Oberst

  Art, People, Vacuums

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, Activist, Feels

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• When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, People, Brain

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• Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

  John Boyd Orr

  Country, Years, Europe

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• The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

  Guy Pearce

  Independent, Film, Intimacy

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• The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

  Shimon Peres

  Space, Internet, Social

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Captains, England, Helpful

  "Strauss steps into England hot seat as Pietersen resigns and Moores sacked" by Mikey Stafford, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2009.

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• I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

  Zachary Quinto

  Who I Am, Psychology, Important

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