“Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.” PeopleWorldLooksSometimesWholeFeelingsReadingWaitingLosesTalkingMorningThis WorldHappeningsMy FriendsJournalist Author:Oscar Niemeyer
“Stop talking about the murders, and we won't know they're happening. And then we can all just live in a bubble that isn't reality.” KnowsRealityTalkingHappeningsMurderBubblesJust Live Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?"” StoriesActionFoundTalkingHappeningsBarsHotel Author:Amy Poehler
“Twitter has allowed the conversation to broaden and become more inclusive. At times, the conversation is really tense but that's because we're talking about really important issues. It's not going to be easy but at least the conversations are happening.” ImportantEasyTalkingIssuesConversationHappeningsTenseImportant Issues Author:Roxane Gay
“This is the problem with foreign policy - talking about foreign policy in a political context. Politics is binary. People win and lose elections. Legislation passes or doesn't pass. And in foreign policy often what you're doing is nuance and you're trying to prevent something worse from happening. It doesn't translate well into a political environment.” PeopleTryingWellsProblemPoliticalWinningLosesTalkingEnvironmentPolicyHappeningsElectionForeign PolicyTranslateLegislationNuanceWinning And LosingBinaryPolitical Environment Author:David Corn
“Why is Dave Chappelle going to Africa? Why does Mariah Carey make a hundred-million dollar deal and take her clothes off on TRL? A weak person can not get here and talk to you. Ain't no weak people talking to you. So what is happening in Hollywood? Nobody knows! The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. I don't understand this person, so they're crazy. That's bullshit. These people are not crazy, they're strong people. Maybe the environment is a little sick.” PeopleKnowsLittlesPersonsDoeStrongDealsTalkingMillionsEnvironmentCrazyWorstClothesHappeningsHundredWeakHollywoodSickDollarsBullshitWorst ThingsCan NotMillion DollarsNobody KnowsDavePeople TalkingStrong PeopleWeak People Author:Dave Chappelle
“There's a lot of money in selling marijuana. If you can do it legally, that's good. Why should all the criminals make the money? This is what people are thinking. If it's happening, if it's going to be legal, let's tax it and regulate it, like we do with everything else and make some money off this. I think that's one reason why people are talking this a little more seriously.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldLittlesReasonCan DoTalkingTaxesHappeningsCriminalsSellingReason WhyMarijuanaLots Of MoneyYou Can Do It Author:Willie Nelson
“I don't like talking about my work at all. I find it very difficult. I never know what to say. It's too close to me, and there's so many things happening unconsciously while I'm working that I'm not aware of, and people will point these things out to me, and I'll say, "That's interesting." But I don't know what to make of it.” PeopleKnowsDifficultInterestingTalkingHappeningsThings Happen Author:Paul Auster
“I think it's very important to get this stuff on film, not just the behind-the-scenes of the process, but also the interviews with the women. We're going to try to do some on-the-street filming, getting people's reactions to the work, and seeing if we can get some street harassment happening on film so people can see what we're talking about. It's important to have some type of documentation so people can see what happens when we create this artwork and why I'm creating it.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingImportantHappensFilmStuffProcessBehindsTalkingSeeingStreetsTypeSceneCreatingHappeningsReactionsInterviewsArtworkHarassmentBehind The ScenesDocumentationStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“Interesting thing that is happening in American society is that people are starting to talk about money. I don't know how you feel about this, but for a long time, nobody was talking about money. It was a secret. And it's kind of very interesting because we do lots of stuff to portray to people about how much money we have, the clothes we wear and the cars we have and the house - they all kind of depict to other people, signal how much money we make, but we don't talk about it specifically.” PeopleKnowsFeelsKindLongHouseStuffInterestingSecretTalkingKnow HowCarClothesLong TimeHappeningsStartingAll KindsSignalsVery InterestingInteresting ThingsHow You FeelAmerican SocietyTalking About Money Author:Dan Ariely
“My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes. If it's not just two people talking in a room, but it's on the move and things are happening and it's chaotic, and emotion comes from the characters and from the action, and the fall-out ultimately changes the character relationships, that exactly the kind of stuff I like writing.” PeopleIfsWritingKindTwoCharacterActionMovingFallStuffRoomsEmotionTalkingSceneHappeningsMy FavoriteDrivenThings To DoChaoticFavorites ThingsPeople TalkingStuff I Like Author:Geoff Johns
“Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in terms of uploading a human consciousness, is probably not all that far away, to be honest. Indeed, it will happen. It's pretty close.” HumansHappensBitsTermConsciousnessTalkingTechnologyKnowingHonestHappeningsActiveBeing HonestFar AwayHuman Consciousness Author:Johnny Depp
“I really believe that is helping people. I've been talking to oncologists about how we can re-frame and re-think the chemo process, so it becomes a much more spiritual, psychological journey. Where people really could burn away what needs to be burned away. It's happening anyway. Why not frame it in a psychological way where it can serve as a transformation?” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsBelieveHelpingSpiritualProcessTalkingJourneyHappeningsTransformationPsychologicalWhy NotBurnedHelping PeopleOncologists Author:Eve Ensler
“I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.” HappensForgetTalkingHappeningsNervous Author:Selena Gomez
“I was in a state of shock, because I have never seen the pope talk about something as unimportant as Donald Trump. OK? And I was like, the pope is talking about me? This can't be happening. And then I said, is it good or bad? They said it's bad.” SaidStatesTalkingTrumpHappeningsShockPopeThey SaidUnimportantTalking About Me Author:Donald Trump
“When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.” PeopleThinkingReadingTalkingStudyRiskStreetsKeysKingsHappeningsBusGuestsNonviolenceSpeakersOverwhelmedTaking Risks Author:Joan Baez
“I think there's something remarkable happening here that nobody is talking about. They're skirting the issue. For the longest time, the Republican Party has told us that they can't win with just Republican votes. And that's why they support amnesty. That's why they support the Democrats on many of their issues to go out and get Hispanics or other minorities.” ThinkingWinningPartyTalkingSupportIssuesRepublicanHappeningsVoteDemocratMinoritiesRemarkableRepublican PartyCan't WinAmnesty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that false reality is light-years from what’s really happening, that in itself is a tremendous defense mechanism because when you start talking about what is actually happening, it is so different from what people perceive to be happening. They just can’t make that jump; it’s too insane for them.” PeopleYearsDifferentRealityLightTalkingHappeningsSellsDefenseInsanePerceiveMechanismNormDefense MechanismsLight YearsFalse Reality Author:David Icke
“Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there's this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud.” PeopleFeelsShowsHalfTalkingHappenedHappeningsThings HappenLoudOther HalfPeople TalkingSubtext Author:Noah Hawley
“I'm specifically talking about Bill Nelson which merely said to [Barak] Obama stop what you're doing because it's against the law. He's out there saying that today we're gonna start separating families from their children and start sending people home, and it's not happening.” PeopleChildrenSaidHomeTodayLawTalkingHappeningsBillsNelsonSeparatingBarak Obama Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's just if one person says anything it becomes click bait and then they start talking about the comedy climate which is hilarious, so no. You know what it is? People are adults and they know they're at a comedy show but every once in a while somebody isn't an adult and then for some reason, you know, it's lazy reporting. They're trying to create this thing that isn't happening. It's not like people go in there and are just sitting with laptops open getting ready to blog about every stupid joke.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingPersonsReasonShowsTalkingComedyStupidReadyHappeningsJokesSittingAdultsClimateLazySay AnythingBlogsClicksLaptopsBaitVery StupidComedy ShowsStupid Jokes Author:Bill Burr
“There are always so many things happening [to us] at one time. We read Isherwood's A Single Man in class, and we had to ask: How is he talking about all this stuff: teaching, being lonely, all his memories, all at the same time? He's telling us: This is where my head is at, let me be straightforward. And of course, try be artful about it.” MenTryingCoursesAsksStuffMemoriesTalkingClassTeachingHappeningsLonelyLet MeThings HappenOne TimeStraightforwardBeing LonelySingle Man Author:Paul Beatty
“The kind of organic wave, the way that waves move, and I'm not just talking about feminism, the way that a social movement might rise like a wave. It's harder to build any kind of wave now. Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That's the only thing that keeps me from believing that there's going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.” WayBelieveKindHas BeensImportantBigsMightMovingSocialTalkingFeminismMovementHappeningsHarderWaveSocial MovementsAmericana Author:Dar Williams
“Absolutely I'm going to be talking about it, because it's in the zeitgeist and it's happening. It's an election year. It's the biggest election. Every election is a big election, so whenever anybody says that it kinds of grates me, but it's a fiasco. It's turned into a complete circus act, so of course you have to make fun of it, but responsible journalists definitely are being irresponsible. They're giving [Donald Trump] so much air time.” GivingYearsKindBigsCoursesFunTalkingAirTrumpHappeningsResponsibleElectionJournalistCircusIrresponsibleZeitgeistFiascoGrateElection Years Author:Chelsea Handler
“These people that started here, they support the government now against those rebels. Why talking about what happened at the very beginning is completely different from what is happening now - it's not the same. There's very high dynamic, things are changing on daily basis. It's a completely different image. Those people who wanted revolution, they are cooperating with us.” PeopleDifferentGovernmentWantedTalkingSupportHappenedRevolutionHappeningsBasesRebelCooperating Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole conversation about prison reform, the whole bipartisan dialogue that's been happening over the past five, six years about this, where you have a Van Jones and a Newt Gingrich, and you have the Rick Perrys and so forth getting up and talking about the need to reform.” NeedsFeelsYearsHas BeensWholePastAttentionTalkingFiveConversationSixHappeningsPaidImpactPrisonDialogueReformVansOver The PastBipartisanNewtsPrison Reform Author:Ava DuVernay
“I was listening to Tommy Chong talking about how he feels like there is like a creative flow happening and how certain people just know how to hook into the pipe. He played music with Jimi Hendrix and felt that he was personally connected to some higher intelligence or creativity.” PeopleKnowsFeelsCertainFeltTalkingCreativityKnow HowCreativeListeningHigherHappeningsFlowConnectedHookPipeHendrix Author:Judd Apatow
“When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.” WorldNeedsVoiceRaceTalkingComedyHonestHappeningsRelationScalesAcknowledgeRace RelationsComedic Author:Trevor Noah
“I'm crazy about Diane Von Furstenberg. It's a relationship that's very different; I don't see Diane a lot. So when I saw the article in New York magazine she looked so beautiful and it was talking about her work, too. She set up the interview and it was happening. That's different than someone writing a book about you who you've never met.” WritingBookDifferentBeautifulTalkingSawsCrazyNew YorkMetsHappeningsMagazinesInterviewsArticlesWriting A Book Author:Diana Ross
“Bolivia is in the lead internationally in talking about the threat of environmental catastrophe. It's generally true where there are indigenous populations, there are important things happening; where the indigenous populations have been marginalized or exterminated, things go to a disaster. This is true worldwide, and Bolivia is striking because it's a majority population and in the lead.” Has BeensImportantTalkingHappeningsImportant ThingsMajorityThreatEnvironmentalPopulationDisasterThings HappenCatastropheIndigenousMarginalizedBolivia Author:Noam Chomsky
“As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.” WorldFeelsDoeUsedHouseTalkingGrewGrew UpHappenings Author:Mike Mills
“A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother's knee it's better to appreciate what's happening... I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.” PeopleThinkingKindTwoSometimesMotherTalkingHappeningsNegativeAppreciateShoesComplainingTendenciesCelebrateKneesWho We Are Author:Betty White