#conversations

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.' ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#begin #conversations #heads #i #like

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#conversations #fun #good #i #interviews

Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#because #confidence #conversations #easily #help

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling. ↗

— John Abizaid

#conversations #enough #feeling #good #people

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#anything #around #balcony #blowing #bottle

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark. ↗

— Mario Batali

#conversations #door #ever #expressions #family

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#advance #alcohol #conversations #critical #decision

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#gravitate #philosophy #serious #towards

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. ↗

— Tony Blair

#conversations #decision #difficult #everybody #frank

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#any #conversations #despicable #hear #jam