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When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.
Chad Harbach
Myself
Try
Argument
Stupid
Reading
Down
Strikes
Way
Those
Paragraph
See
Write
Arrange
Doing
Lot
Begin
Yields
Scribble
Then
Convince
Notion
Notions
Here
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Charles Simmons
Silence
Old
Fire
Argument
Intolerance
Silenced
Days
Persecution
Endeavors
Modern
Old Days
Sword
Tongue
I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.
Charlie Brooker
Argument
Twitter
Too
Back
Easy
Involvement
Get
Dragged
The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that.
Chris Christie
World
Argument
Own
Back
Our
We Cannot
House
Getting
Order
Cannot
Turning
Should
There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.
Chris Cornell
Time
You
Better
Result
Argument
Spend
Some
No Guarantee
More
Point
Songwriting
Concentrate
Existential
Going
Arts
Process
Produce
Certain
Aspects
Guarantee
Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.
Chris Crutcher
Language
Argument
Tolerance
Our
Case
Give
Allow
Since
Also
Schools
Make
Children
Stories
Which
Them
Use
Used
Zero
Zero Tolerance
I think in telling a good story there has to be ups and downs with any character, and you can't just have everything go swimmingly and you can't just have characters who are supposed to be in a romantic relationship just getting into an argument every episode.
Chris Sullivan
Good
Character
Relationship
You
Ups And Downs
Argument
Every
Think
Everything
Characters
Telling
Good Story
Supposed
Go
Any
Getting
Just
Ups
Romantic
Story
Episode
Who
Downs
If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.
Christopher Hitchens
Political
Argument
Think
Other
Side
Say
Able
Case
Could
Put
Well
Without
Least
Person
Accuracy
Any
Boasting
Reasonable
If your first objective in the negotiation, instead of making your argument, is to hear the other side out, that's the only way you can quiet the voice in the other guy's mind. But most people don't do that.
Christopher Voss
You
People
Mind
Argument
First
Other
Side
Way
Negotiation
Out
Objective
Guy
Only
Voice
Instead
Most
Making
Hear
Quiet
Your
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
Chuck Schumer
Life
Love
You
Expediency
Path
Slow
Argument
Way
Bit
Tortured
Oblivion
River
Step
Road
Undoing
Canyon
Creates
Persuade
I've never bought the argument that people are apathetic about politics.
Chuka Umunna
Politics
People
Argument
About
Never
Bought
Apathetic
The argument in Labour around full membership of the single market is about whether it can be squared with delivering the desire of many of our voters to gain greater control over immigration. This is a proper concern - Labour must stand for those who voted leave every bit as much as we represent those who voted remain.
Chuka Umunna
Immigration
Argument
Single
Control
Every
Market
Our
Bit
Those
Membership
Must
About
Proper
Remain
Delivering
Over
Voted
Voters
Concern
Greater
Around
Leave
Labour
Represent
Gain
Whether
Much
Stand
Full
Who
Many
Desire
I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.
Colin Firth
You
People
Argument
Back
London
Pick
Come
Look
Ready
Been
Notice
Away
I cannot think of a tactical alliance with the Left because I represent the idea that there is a peaceful, nonviolent way to dislodge a dictatorship... A tactical Left alliance damages my argument. If I succeed with them, we will never know if peace can really produce freedom.
Corazon Aquino
Freedom
Peace
Dictatorship
Will
Argument
Think
Way
Tactical
Alliance
Never
Idea
Know
Because
Nonviolent
Left
Represent
Cannot
Succeed
Them
Produce
Really
Peaceful
Damages
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'
Craig Ferguson
Teacher
School
Word
Argument
Out
High
High School
Had
Dropped
Over
Huge
After
Meaning
Meaning Of
English
English Teacher
I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.
Danger Mouse
Sad
Me
You
People
Song
Argument
Way
Say
Kind
Classic
Some
Pretty
Name
Often
Far
Search
Even
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
Myself
Argument
Varied
Potter
Puts
Longevity
Well
Make
Bed
Child
Child Actors
Goes
After
Then
Actor
Career
It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.
Dave Edmunds
Truth
Great
Sometimes
Argument
Say
Boring
Never
Had
Along
Come
Well
Make
Up
Very
Mock
Get
Interesting
Aggravation
This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.
Dave Edmunds
Amazing
Argument
Band
Never
Had
Just
It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it.
Dave Itzkoff
Art
You
People
Black
Argument
Community
Other
Way
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Hop
Slope
Only
Make
Hip
Hip-Hop
Art Form
Person
Want
Endure
Form
Certainly
Origins
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
David Baltimore
You
People
Will
Made
Argument
Congress
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Has-Been
Slope
Allow
Calling
Been
Cloning
Get
Reproductive
Then
Therapeutic
My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I think in those days we called them arguments - about who was right and who was wrong.
David Bowie
Home
Mother
Debate
Father
Argument
Think
Those
About
Wrong
Days
Catholic
Protestant
Always
Going
Them
Who
Right
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
David Crystal
Strength
People
Argument
Thinking
Way
Through
Academics
Alter
Normally
Manage
Until Japan's economy drove off a cliff, there was a running argument in Asia about whether it would be wiser to follow the 'Japan model' - with its megacorporations, jobs for life, state control of strategic industries - or the 'American model' of largely unfettered markets.
David E. Sanger
Life
Argument
Control
State
Markets
Jobs
Would
Would-Be
Running
Follow
About
Wiser
Drove
Economy
Until
Industries
Cliff
Off
Model
American
Unfettered
Whether
Japan
Asia
Strategic
Largely
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
David F. Houston
Drive
Argument
Fact
Could
Through
Never
Part
Prairie
His
Scrape
Any
Against
Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
David Herbert Donald
Result
Argument
Carefully
Draw
Out
Kind
Would
Could
Had
He
Pros
Talk
Himself
Test
Lincoln
Debated
Up
Person
List
Often
Public
Them
Might
Figure
Cons
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