I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.
Russell Smith
FutureBookTelevisionArgumentKnow
Jokes for jokes' sake are kind of meaningless to me. I understand the value of them, but it doesn't speak to me as much. You can lace your argument with jokes, but tell me why you're presenting this argument. What does it mean?
Hasan Minhaj
ValueMeSpeakYouArgumentKind
One thing about liberals: It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argument. They are so convinced of the righteousness of their own position that it doesn't dawn on them that a reasonable person might have a different viewpoint.
Monica Crowley
DawnArgumentPersonSideOwnEven
There's been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you listen to it, it's mine! It's the 'Foreigner Suite,' it is!
Cat Stevens
YouArgumentListenStealingBeen
I'm not scared of diversity. We have to have debates and win the argument, and if there are amendments that need to be brought up so we find out where the party is, so be it.
Jason Chaffetz
DiversityWinFindPartyArgument
If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.
Daniel Radcliffe
MyselfChildCareerI CanArgument
I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.
Jonathan Krohn
PhilosophyArgumentWantKindMeat
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry
RedDawnBetterRiseArgumentCup
Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.
Deborah Tannen
CultureArgumentLivingAtmosphere
I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
Rafael Nadal
WinLongLoseArgumentDiscussion
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Che Guevara
SilenceArgumentOutOtherMeans
There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
K. V. Thomas
FoodMomentEnoughArgumentComplain
Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.
Apollonius of Tyana
LoveReputationArgumentPersonWay
To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
Campbell Brown
PartnerSomeoneArgumentIntellectual
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
Ali Smith
LifeGoodBookArgumentGoAlways
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
E. T. Bell
MeAssumptionsArgumentWithoutAny
The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.
William H. Gray
SchoolSocietyFreeAmericaArgument
The essence to me of all good drama is argument.
Sydney Pollack
GoodMeArgumentDramaEssence
Candidate Trump had previously opined that 'Islam hates us' and had called for 'the total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,' an argument he has since modified and moderated.
Peter Bergen
ArgumentIslamUsCompleteCandidate
I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number of people - to take them through the argument by dramatizing the circumstances in which these issues are being discussed.
Sebastian Faulks
PeopleArgumentSeriousCircumstances
The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.'
Timothy Noah
ArgumentNowWantWillSideMay
After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.
Ric Keller
GovernmentArgumentYearsGoneUs
My last conversation with my father was an argument we'd had. When I came to know of his hospitalisation, I'd lost him within seven hours. I still regret the last conversation with him.
Mouni Roy
FatherRegretConversationArgument
The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.
Lisa Blatt
ArgumentFairCourtroomBattlefield
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