#discussions

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#grinder #hold #monkey #never #organ

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#any #attending #club #clubs #discussions

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #charge #discussions #easily #faculty

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#acts #aesthetic #also #always #arena

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beauty #been #between #discriminate #discussions

In September, I left the show. We were going through discussions and negotiations, and I had been on the show for about 11 years, and there were some things that I was asking for that I didn't feel were the moon or the stars. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#asking #been #discussions #feel #going

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#adaptation #before #bringing #called #discussions

The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions. ↗

— Rita Wilson

#discussions #good #good meal #greek #laughing

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#deal #discussed #discussions #give #good

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously. ↗

— Juan Cole

#discussions #dominate #i #i think #nevertheless