#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

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

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

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

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. ↗

— Truman Capote

#conversations #dialogue #due #few #good

Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#across #blair #conversations #david #each

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#clinical #conversations #days #depression #finds

The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#ally #another #ardent #conversations #disagree