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I haven't always been good at flirting, but I've learned that flirting is all about confidence. I don't think it's about being sexy at all; it's just about having enough confidence to walk up to somebody and have a conversation with them.
Sevyn Streeter
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Singer-Songwriter
Confidence
Conversation
Flirting
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We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.
William Lacy Clay, Jr.
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U.s. Representative
African American
Conversation
Oath
Officers
Police
Protected
Salary
African-American Community
Forces
Interact
Paying
Police Forces
Served
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Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.
Edmund White
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Novelist
Born Again
Candidates
Conversation
Jesus Christ
American People
Ceos
Europeans
Ladies
One-Third
Universities
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Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.
Helena Bonham Carter
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Actress
Conversation
House
People
Work Business Me
Conversations
Cultured
Relationships
Tim
Vent
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I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
Ben Lindsey
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Jurist
Conversation
Cosmic
Demand
Married
Maternity
Mother
Reverence
Sacred
Unmarried
Channel
Pass
Permitted
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It's a conversation that nobody really likes to have, and it seems that we never can get to a solution with it and something horrific happens. We all stand back and say, "How could we let that happen?" and then it goes away and we move on.
Katey Sagal
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Actress
Conversation
Likes
Moving
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For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive.
Derren Brown
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Illusionist
Conversation
Impress
Long Time
Time Long People
Trick
Showing
Table
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
Ornette Coleman
/
Saxophonist
Kids
Adults
Conversation
Fit
Little Kid
Logical
Thinking
Adult
Holding
Spell
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I like something simple and traditional, like dinner and a movie. The best way to get to know someone is to have a conversation over dinner. And steak houses have a nice atmosphere - the lights are dim, and they usually have a band playing.
Kevin Durant
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Basketball Player
Movie
Atmosphere
Band
Best Way
Conversation
Nice
Simple
Steak
Traditional
Dim
Houses
Lights
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As a black man, sometimes you can't tell if what you're seeing has underlying bigotry, or it's a normal conversation and you're being paranoid. That dynamic in itself is unsettling. I admit sometimes I see race and racism when its not there.
Jordan Peele
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Actor
Conversation
Normal
Race
Seeing
Admit
Man Black Racism
Dynamic
Underlying
Unsettling
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To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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Author
Communication
Compliance
Conversation
Crucial
Divine
Heavenly
Heavenly Father
Sacred
Pray
Counsel
Deity
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I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!
Ray Charles
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Singer-Songwriter
Conversation
Quiet
Relatively
Ringing
Telephone
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The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.
Anna D. Shapiro
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Theatre Director
Conversation
Human Behavior
Math
Versus
Wide
Anything Else
Wide World
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Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.
Janis Karpinski
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Military Officer
Baghdad
Conversation
Ambassador
Iraqis
Operational
Prisons
Timeline
Transfer
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So much of what passes for conversation today is degraded. It's either about one-upmanship, or dreary trivia. Even the cut and thrust of wit and bons mots is a form of bedazzlement designed to stop conversations dead rather than broaden them.
Theodore Zeldin
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Conversation
Dreary
Thrust
Trivia
Wit
Broaden
Dead
Cut
Degraded
Designed
Passes
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If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.
Toby Keith
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Singer-Songwriter
Conversation
Fifty
Forty
Intriguing
All Year
Pull
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
Karen Abbott
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Author
Atlanta
Civil War
Conversation
Daily Life
Shock
Civil
Philly
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I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.
Evelyn Glennie
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Percussionist
Conversation
Differences
Hearing
Mean
Play
Big Difference
Difference
Exactly
Suppose
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Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'
Neil Peart
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Musician
Conversation
Grandpa
Speeding
Tears
Grouch
Smiled
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I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way too competitive. We were seven or eight years old, and I had a very stern conversation with my relay team-mates about how crucial it was for us to win.
Laura Robson
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Sports
Conversation
Crucial
Eight
Race
Competitive
Stern
Recall
Relay
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I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Actress
Conversation
Life Time Me
Entire
Entire Life
Literally
Spell
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Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
John Podhoretz
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Writer
Blogs
Cocktail Parties
Cocktails
Conversation
Hunger
Party
Twitter
Amplified
Version
Compulsive
Facebook
Instantly
Participate
Virtual
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Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key, pleasant, undemanding way.
Gretchen Rubin
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Author
Comment
Conversation
Engaging
Low Key
Pleasant
Watching Tv
Showing
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There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.
Jason Ritter
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Actor
Antisocial
Conversation
Feels
Party
Rejected
Me Lost Look
Look Me Lost
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Britney Spears can't hold a conversation. (mind controlled) The ultimate meltdown was Britney Spears. But she (Spears) can't hold a conversation. No. They have someone who feeds her what she is supposed to say. Like she can't hold a conversation.
Adrienne Bailon
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Singer-Songwriter
Conversation
Meltdowns
Mind
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When you got on the private plane, you had your own private lounge where you could close the door. So there wasn't a lot of friendly conversation; we were in incubators by ourselves. That just bred a void - avoid each other, and avoid the issues.
Don Felder
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Musician
Conversation
Friendly
Void
Avoid
Bred
Door
Lounge
Plane
Private
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I've been to a couple of restaurants in L.A. that were so loud, I left there with a sore throat; you literally could not have a conversation. I think it's very deliberate: There's this idea that somehow it's more fun if there's a roar in the room.
Ruth Reichl
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Writer
Conversation
Deliberate
Loud
Restaurants
Throat
Roar
Sore
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I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.
Jesse Eisenberg
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Actor
Add
Conversation
Mistake
Website
Political Father Me
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Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.
Dhani Jones
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Football Player
Travel
Believe
Conversation
Manhattan
Meaningful
Singapore
Streets
Subway
Cincinnati
Travel Believe I Believe
Importantly
Plane
Search
Wherever
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And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.
Norton Juster
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Author
Book
Conversation
Pages
Anyway
Simply
Necessarily
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I don't really know what to say about Izzy. It's like you could have a conversation and think it's one way, and the next day, it's another way. And I'm not trying to take any shots at Izzy. It's just his thing is kind of his thing, whatever that is.
Axl Rose
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Singer-Songwriter
Another Way
Conversation
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Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.
Eric Liu
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Writer
Citizenship
Conversation
Descending
Everyday
Mortar
Old Fashioned
Accompanied
National
Shrill
Thin
Whine
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In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Scientist
Backwards
Conversation
First Time
Instruments
Length
Miles
October
Actual
Carried
Experiment
Forwards
Successfully
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It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a certain part of my throat, so that I am accurate every time. It's not like whatever happens happens, this is a focused sound.
Doug E. Fresh
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Rapper
Accurate
Conversation
Focused
Natural
Sound
Talking
Throat
Time I Am Me
Time Happens Me
Sending
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I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.
Kevin Mccloud
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Designer
Adrenaline
Conversation
Engaging
Everyday
Normal
Shy
Television
Amplified
Version
Camera
Otherwise
Presents
Pumping
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There is not a day that goes by that does not include a conversation with God. There is not a day that goes by that does not contain signs. There are many days that go by on which we do not hear the conversation, do not see the signs. So stay awake.
Neale Donald Walsch
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Author
Conversation
Conversations With God
Doe
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Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
Simon Sinek
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Author
Advantage
Conversation
Desire
Doe
Heard
Huge
Needs
People
Good People Care
Desires
Engage
Good Care People
Good Reason
Listener
Understands
Wants
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I've been fortunate enough to write a book and travel the country to sign and sell it, so I can safely say that a five-second burst of conversation while you're scribbling your name, over and over, is not the most reliable way to bond with Americans.
Gwen Ifill
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Journalist
Travel
Conversation
Fortunate
Bond
Burst
Sell
Reliable
Safely
Scribbling
Sign
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Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.
Andrew Motion
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Poet
Conversation
Getting Older
Roots
Shed
Suppose
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The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.
Joanna Scott
/
Conversation
Hiding
Narrative
Chapter
Connect
Novelist
Readers
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I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If you can put your legs behind your head, let's say you're a contortionist!' So I got sent out for everything twisty and bendy. It's a good conversation starter.
Doug Jones
/
Conversation
Good Conversation
Legs
Good Your Me
Agent
Sent
Starter
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There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.
Jennifer Beals
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Film Actress
New York
Conversation
Instability
Unstable
Camera
Time World New
Particularly
Street
Happening
Unaware
York
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Russia, at the start of the 21st century, at least in its larger cities, very much resembled the United States of the early 1990s: being gay was no longer criminal or shameful, but it was still not a topic for polite conversation or public discussion.
Masha Gessen
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Journalist
Cities
Conversation
Discussion
Russia
Shameful
Criminal
Early 1990S
Topic
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No one wants police brutality. No one wants inequality. But what I worry about it is when a protest becomes so large and the noise takes over that the original motivation for the protest and the conversation that should go with that protest gets lost.
Mike Leach
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Football Coach
Conversation
Inequality
Lost
Motivation
Noise
Police
Protest
Should
Worry
Becomes
Original
Gets
Over
Large
Takes
Wants
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We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
Larry Page
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Business Magnate
Conversation
Parameters
Surveillance
Users
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My experience from working with people is that you can have a conversation with someone or have a meeting with a group of people, and from that meeting will derive an answer to a question that no individual could have ever thought of by him or herself.
John C. Mather
/
Conversation
Derive
Herself
Meeting
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People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.
Evan Spiegel
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Internet Entrepreneur
Conceiving
Conversation
Networking
Real Value
Tools
Your Me Value
More People
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My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.
Alex Lemon
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Poet
Conversation
Crucible
Language
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
Hari Kondabolu
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Stand-Up Comic
Agree
Conversation
Laughed
Time Me People
Time Happens Me
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The best meeting I ever went to was a meeting in France where the talk slots were 60 minutes long, but you were told to prepare a five-minute talk. It was absolutely great because the entire talk was a conversation between the speaker and the audience.
Tim Hunt
/
Conversation
France
Best Great Long
Five-Minute
Meeting
Speaker
Prepare
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