“As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?” IfsKnowsPersonsPresidentRaceGayConversationFemaleCrossesAfrican AmericanAsianHurdleAmerican PresidentHurdling ObstaclesFemale President Author:Octavia Spencer
“I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.” IfsKnowsWritingKindSaidDifferentEndsPlayWantedSongOrderPresidentRecordsOne ThingStyleConversationAskingPhonesHearingCuriousLabelsCollaborationDifferent KindsSoloDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Ryan Adams
“[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.” YearsCareRememberLanguagePresidentConversationSpeechDaughterThirtyThirty YearsLawnsManureFertilizer Author:Bess Truman
“There was a very small crowd - minuscule compared to the crowd that he gathered later - at a private home in Los Angeles. And we were standing on the back patio, waiting for him. And he came through the house, saw me and immediately put his hand up in the Vulcan gesture. He said, 'They told me you were here.' We had a wonderful, brief conversation and I said, 'It would be logical if you would become president.'” IfsSaidHomeHandsWould BeHouseWaitingPresidentSawsWonderfulConversationStandingCrowdsLogicalLos AngelesGesturesHands Up Author:Leonard Nimoy
“I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.” MenBigsPresidentConversationMacgyver Author:Shane Carruth
“I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.” PeoplePresidentTermConversationIncludingScaryPresident Nixon Author:Billy Graham
“I think if the White House or the President want to say anything about our conversations or anything I tried to do to help our country with their support or at their request, then I think they should be the ones to do that. But I think that former presidents should do that.” IfsThinkingWantShouldCountryHelpingHousePresidentWhiteSupportConversationOur CountryFormerWhite HouseSay AnythingRequest Author:William J. Clinton
“It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the President had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone. It's a larger anthropological shift in my mind than even the tattoo age in the United States.” PeopleIfsMindLooksHardStatesAgeEarthUsedPresidentUnitedUnited StatesCommunicationConversationPrisonPhonesUsed To BeCellsTattooNavyMobileCell PhoneMobile PhonesCarnivals Author:Padgett Powell