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Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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There have been many times when I thought I was having a logical discussion with a woman, and then I'm left sitting alone, confused, trying to recount how it went down.

~Alex O'Loughlin

Topics: Alone Been Confused Discussion Down Having How Left Logical Many Recount Sitting Then Thought Times Trying Woman

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Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.

~Alexander Downer

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There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Bizarre Discussion Engage How Insistence Interesting Just Know Means Must Never Protagonist Say Should Story Sympathetic They Say Use Whatever Word

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Nearly everything faith-related that I have done at Harvard has been followed by free food, from going to services at Harvard's Episcopal Chaplaincy to attending a day of interfaith discussion and dialogue hosted by the university chaplains in the fall.

~Alexandra Petri

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In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.

~Alexei Mordashov

Topics: Cannot Citizen Company Corporate Course Discussed Discussion Even Everything Good Government Idea Literal Merger Private Russian Sense Some Wants Without

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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

~Alexis De Tocqueville

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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

~Alexis De Tocqueville

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When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.

~Alfonso Cuaron

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If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

~Alfred P. Sloan

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