Either Or Quotes - Page 3

• The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.

  James Randi

  Men, Data, Religion

  "Another New Fan". Swift, archive.randi.org. September 02, 2005.

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• The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance.

  Nabeshima Naoshige

  War, Choices, Samurai

  "Hagakure" by Nabeshima Naoshige, translated by William Scott Wilson, 1979.

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• When the question is either/or, the answer is almost alwaysboth/and.

  Bill Crawford

  Answers

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• It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

  Neil Postman

  Mistake, Technology, Blessing

  Neil Postman (2011). “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology”, p.14, Vintage

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• The question is not do you take money out of stocks and put it into real estate, or the reverse. There's so much money out there looking for a home. I don't think it's either/or.

  Sam Zell

  Money, Real, Home

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• Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

  Antonio Damasio

  Opportunity, Purpose, Body

  "Big Think Interview With Antonio Damasio". Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• The God-honest truth is that Jeff and I just do what we do. You have no control. We didn't have control last year, or the year before either, or the year before that. We can only do what we do, which is to make the show that we love, continue to follow the path for the stories that we want to tell, tell great and compelling stories, week-to-week, that interest our fans, and really hope for the best.

  J.H. Wyman

  Years, Fans, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal miners. Why did they go into that line of work? Because that's what they were taught. Or was it in their genes? It's not an either/or question. It's both. I was inclined in that way. I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

  Rosanne Cash

  Growing Up, Father, Son

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• I like to think both - it's not either/or. It's and.

  Jane Fonda

  Thinking

  "Jane Fonda, Fitness Guru, Reveals What Inspires Her In Origin Magazine Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• A lot of the issues that I see, it is not an either-or situation.

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Situation

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• The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.

  Kathy Bates

  Running, Character, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If people go to IMDB, they will see that I'm very comfortable with independent cinema, and doing studio films too. For me this is not an either/or situation.

  Spike Lee

  Independent, People, Cinema

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.

  Christoph Waltz

  Soccer, Hockey, Media

  Source: screenrant.com

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• For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of double happiness and we were arguing over the meaning. She’d thought it meant the luck of the boy getting the job and the girl. But I’d disagreed. It was the couplet fitting together, the two halves finding each other. It was love. But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It’s not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will. Maybe for double happiness, you need both.

  Gayle Forman

  Girl, Jobs, Fate

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• We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Impact, Addresses, Asteroids

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Journalist, Scenarios

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded?

  Bell Hooks

  Moving, Thinking, Race

  Source: nefac.net

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• Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.

  Nigel Gibson

  Vacuums, Development, Situation

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I don't think we need to have an either/or debate about the use of military force - I think you can be both tough and smart.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Smart, Thinking

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Demand, Want

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Believe, School

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• The dead guy looked at me with wide eyes. “I can’t move my legs.” I snorted. “You can’t move your arms either, or your feet or your freaking eyelids. You’re dead.

  Darynda Jones

  Moving, Eye, Feet

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Now, at times this issue has tended to degenerate into an 'either-or' type of debate. Either we protect our people from terror or we protect our most cherished principles. But that is a false choice. It asks too little of us and assumes too little about America.

  Barack Obama

  America, Issues, People

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• Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from a right versus left, religious conservatives versus secular liberal, believer versus atheist, binary. Too often, we just look at religion in America through that kind of either/or lens. I think it's much more complicated than that.

  Ross Douthat

  Religious, Atheist, Independent

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all true and good. But it also suggests that there is an individual approach to the issues that many of these white people have taken up as a recognition of their tie to and responsibility for some of the inequities that exist. And I don't think it has to be an either-or. I think it has to be a bifocal approach.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Taken, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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