Arguing Quotes - Page 11

• I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the diverse parts of the mind - especially those multiple levels of which one extreme is called 'consciousness' and the other the 'unconscious'

  Gregory Bateson

  Grace, Mind, Levels

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.129, University of Chicago Press

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• Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.

  Roger Ailes

  Country, Growing Up, Dad

  "Roger Ailes on Roger Ailes: The Interview Transcripts, Part 1" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 25, 2011.

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• We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone company still has them, you have to argue with their chief counsel by the time you get access to it, and try to find out who they've been talking to before it's too late.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Phones, Trying

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Ifs And, Down And

  Source: www.today.com

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• Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.

  James Altucher

  Morning, Reading, People

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• I am here for my mother and all the Americans who are forced to spend time arguing with health insurance companies instead of focusing on getting well. I am here for the millions of lives that will be touched and in some cases, saved, by health insurance reform. I am here for the small businesses who are forced to choose between health care and hiring. I am here for the seniors who are unable to afford the prescriptions they need.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Mother, Get Well

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• I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.

  Craig Groeschel

  People, Church, Today

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• There are two ways to argue with a woman, and neither of them work.

  Carlos Boozer

  Two, Way, Two Ways

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• You shouldn't be worried when people call, communicate, yell, argue, or cry for you. You should be worried when everyone is silent.

  Behdad Sami

  People, Cry, Silent

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• China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

  Bill Gates

  Needs, Should, Type

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• We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody somewhere won't argue is actually a good, no idiocy that hasn't got its perfectly serious defenders, and no tyrant, past or present - no matter how bloody - without some bunch of zealot schmucks to defend him or his reputation till the last breath in their bodies - or preferably somebody else's.

  Clive Barker

  Past, Thinking, Tyrants

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• I realize it is normal to argue. I almost missed World War II watching my parents fight.

  Phyllis Diller

  War, Fighting, Parent

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• They create these rules and argue about things we don't even understand. It is like watching soccer. You sit there and you're sort of amused, but most of the time you're thinking, pick up the ball! That's what you're thinking.

  Jon Stewart

  Soccer, Thinking, Balls

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• How to survive boarding school. Do not express emotion, do not feel emotion, do not have emotion. If someone hits you, hit them back, if someone argues with you, argue back, never give in an inch, never look vulnerable and you will survive.

  Eddie Izzard

  School, Giving, Looks

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• No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice.

  Desi Arnaz

  Nice, People, Be Kind

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• Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

  Douglas Hurd

  People, Ministers, Prime

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• Although the advice that you get if you got to see Margaret is 'stand up for yourself, shout back, and argue the toss and then she will respect you', the trouble is that sort of advice to the English middle-class male of a certain age doesn't actually help us very much because we've always been brought up to believe that it's extremely rude to shout back at women.

  Julian Critchley

  Believe, Class, Rude

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• We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.

  Chris Hayes

  Black, Scientist, Good Education

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Responsibility, People, Smoking

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I really like the director [for Weeds]. I don't know if you've spoken to him yet but he's really, really intelligent. He was just really kind when I met him and nice and really told me why I should play the part...and kind of really didn't argue with him. He's just really, really smart and assembled these really great people. I felt like he really knows how to enlist his intelligence to get you - I don't know - he's really hard to argue with I find.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Weed, Nice, Smart

  Source: collider.com

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• When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.

  Jello Biafra

  Teacher, Class, People

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.

  Bob Saget

  People, Truth Is

  Twitter post from Jan 08, 2013

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• I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Jobs, Practice, Ecosystems

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• Old people always tell you: 'When you've been around as long I have, then you can argue.' As soon as they're ripped off, it's a different story.

  Doug Stanhope

  Long, People, Different

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• Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Spiritual, Leader, Departure

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