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John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
Norodom Sihanouk
Me
Protection
Organization
Argument
Exhausted
Every
State
Secretary
East
East Asia
John
Had
He
Cambodia
His
South
Place
Asia
Capacity
Persuade
Foster
Treaty
In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.
Paul Mellon
Vision
Father
National
Other
Hunch
Way
Would
Collectors
Had
He
Come
Him
Proved
His
Interest
Them
Gallery
Persuade
Lucky
Right
Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
Peter Guber
Mom
Game
People
Young
Take
Since
Most
Ball
Ball Game
Were
Wanted
Young People
Storytelling
Them
Persuade
Skills
Used
Mom And Dad
Dad
When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to engage and persuade, they further arouse public opposition rather than win support.
Preston Manning
Business
Win
Political
Further
Threaten
Rather
Leaders
Support
Arouse
Opinion
Issue
Opposition
Than
Effort
Influence
Public
Persuade
Business Leaders
Engage
Public Opinion
Initial
You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.
Riccardo Muti
Time
You
Able
Same
Same Time
Persuade
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
Richard Hooker
Ought
Favorable
About
Shall
Never
He
Attentive
Well
Governed
Want
Persuade
Multitude
Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.
Robert Fripp
You
People
Band
Action
Group
Members
Possible
Thousands
Thousands Of People
See
Course
Within
Deal
How
Expect
Expectations
Manage
Cannot
Next
Persuade
Even
There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing.
Robert McFarlane
Alone
You
Face
Different Kinds
Kinds
Through
He
Force
Occasionally
Deal
Terrorist
Doing
Bully
Stop
Movements
Different
Persuade
Specifically
Because a lot of people are hurting economically and being shafted by the very wealthy, it's been possible here in the United States of America to organize them and persuade them that to elect a nincompoop like Donald Trump is actually in their best interest. When clearly it isn't.
Roger Waters
Best
People
States
Possible
Wealthy
Hurting
Clearly
Economically
Like
Because
Been
Trump
Lot
Very
America
Donald
Donald Trump
Being
Interest
Them
Elect
Persuade
Organize
United
United States
United States Of America
Actually
Here
If a better player comes along, I will try to persuade the club to get him in. Sometimes, you can do your business and all of a sudden something appears that you never expected to appear.
Sam Allardyce
You
Business
Better
Sometimes
Try
Will
Club
Something
Better Player
Never
Along
Him
Expected
Get
Persuade
Your
Appear
Sudden
Appears
Player
If you want to persuade people, you've got to talk with your heart. You've got to talk about why your policies matter to them.
Sean Duffy
You
Heart
People
Matter
About
Talk
Policies
Got
Want
Them
Persuade
Your
Why
The Egyptian FA have tried to persuade me to play for them, but all I'm dreaming about is the blue jersey.
Stephan El Shaarawy
Me
Tried
Dreaming
About
Blue
Egyptian
Them
Persuade
Jersey
Play
As a Democrat in a red state, I often spend days among crowds where there are almost no Democratic voters in sight. I listen to them, work with them and try to persuade them.
Steve Bullock
Work
Try
State
Spend
Sight
Crowds
Almost
Red
Days
Voters
Democrat
Democratic
Listen
Often
Where
Them
Persuade
Among
I always tell my students: I don't care which side you're on. I respect you too much to try to persuade you in 120 minutes a week, much less lure you into pretending that you agree with me. All I want is for you to own this democracy, to see yours, to have a stake in it.
Susan Estrich
Me
Democracy
You
Respect
Try
Care
Too Much
Pretending
Own
Too
Side
Tell
See
Minutes
Week
Students
Always
dont Care
Want
Which
Stake
Much
Persuade
Less
Yours
Agree
Lure
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
Thomas More
Daily
Rain
People
Skin
Out
See
Seeing
Folly
Remedy
Houses
Within
Go
Wet
Cannot
Them
Themselves
Persuade
Keep
Streets
As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.
Tom Sturridge
Character
You
Someone
Shakespeare
Got
Sentence
Persuade
Right
Speech
What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.
Trevor Nunn
You
Yourself
People
Listening
Sense
Other
Relate
Humility
Analyze
Way
Would
Written
Putting
Doing
Text
Anybody
Anything
Persuade
Professional
Play
When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
Walter Becker
You
Song
Somebody
Type
Lyrically
Collaborating
Musically
Spirit
Someone
Write
Lot
Times
Just
Either
Persuade
Certain
Cooperation
I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.
Wendie Malick
Life
Character
You
Somebody
My Life
Sit
Others
Else
About
Something
Join
Support
Know
Particularly
Talk
How
Context
How Many Times
Doing
Times
Experiences
Interesting
Persuade
Your
Many
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
Wim Wenders
Culture
Politicians
Lobbying
Others
Seemed
Had
Protect
Doing
Years
Movies
Them
Persuade
European
Needed
My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.
Jose Jose
Me
Father
Enter
Tried
Constantly
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Artistic
Persuade
Who
Career
Obamacare arrived also because Republicans failed to persuade the public that we could address the avalanche of problems government had already created by decades of interfering with the health-care market.
Ben Sasse
Government
Problems
Market
Address
Obamacare
Could
Had
Failed
Also
Because
Arrived
Decades
Public
Republicans
Avalanche
Created
Persuade
Interfering
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People
Our
Faults
Confess
Little
Persuade
Large
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Orator
Only
Always
Passions
Which
Persuade
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