Discussing Quotes - Page 3

• The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

  Michael Chiklis

  Team, Wife, Faces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.

  Alan Cumming

  Team, Insecure, Thinking

  "Acting out" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2007.

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• All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.

  Lynne Truss

  Book, People, Giving

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• While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.

  Art Buchwald

  Education, Country, School

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Fields, Cricket

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• If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

  Max Lerner

  Mean, Decision, Unions

  "Lou Dobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2003.

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• The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

  William Hazlitt

  Friends, Character, Common

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• In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

  Mike Figgis

  Plot, Actors, Made

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• The reason the first three Star Wars movies were so terrific, and the second three sucked so bad, is actually very simple. The first three were about rebels, shooting guns and driving fast, and speaking with American accents. The second three were about politicians, discussing treaties and holding court, and speaking with British accents.

  Bill Whittle

  Stars, War, Simple

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• Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Attention, Politics, Pay

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• I'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Team, Anchors, Issues

  "Christiane Amanpour Named 'This Week' Anchor" by Nitya Venkataraman, abcnews.go.com. March 18, 2010.

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• When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew more about the subject we were discussing than I did. I had to make sure that they felt confident enough to tell me everything they believed.

  Colin Powell

  People, Juniors, Joints

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cancer, Years, Mirrors

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• [In remake] you've got to have something new to say, or technology that wasn't available, or a new chapter that kind of speaks to this generation of fans. They've got some unique assets, so we're certainly discussing those things.

  Thomas Tull

  Unique, Technology, This Generation

  Source: collider.com

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• The people and the warmakers are two distinct groups. We must never say 'we' when discussing the US government's foreign policy. For one thing, the warmakers do not care about the opinions of the majority of Americans. It is silly and embarrassing for Americans to speak of 'we' when discussing their government's foreign policy, as if their input were necessary to or desired by those who make war.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  War, Silly, Two

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• Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward - certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors discussing what is called 'Constitutional law,' much of which has no basis in that document....The real question [for judicial nominees] is whether that nominee will follow the law or succumb to the lure of 'a living constitution,' 'evolving standards' and other lofty words meaning judicial power to reshape the law to suit their own personal preferences.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Simple, Law

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• We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Numbers, One Day, Nuclear

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• Tonight, the news debated the intelligence of a bear. And it got my wondering why humanity rewards itself for passing tests that we create. And that got me wondering why we care. I've studied enough wars to know that the intelligence of the target isn't on the mind of the person with the gun. Maybe we should stop talking about intelligence and start discussing our grades in compassion.

  Paige

  War, Compassion, Gun

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• To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Years, Cities, Bishops

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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• Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so much.

  Henry Jackman

  Talking, Musical, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Whether I'm at home and researching online or whether I'm in the studio just drawing, I think I'm more interested in practical research - discussing with other people, trying to find the exact formula of putting things on the canvas, what is the consistency of paint that works best.

  Camille Henrot

  Home, Thinking, Drawing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.

  Steven Morrissey

  Jesus, Idiot, Pity

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• To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

  Clay Shirky

  Wish, Groups, Tools

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• We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reality, Vocabulary, Opposites

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Discussing external migration issues is impossible without discussing internal migration issues

  Jack Goldstone

  Issues, Migration, Impossible

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