Scenarios Quotes - Page 12

• I don't want to have kids and so I am not going to have kids. People who want kids are going to have kids. I'm doing what I want to do and people who want kids are doing what they want to do. What about this scenario makes me selfish?

  Jen Kirkman

  Selfish, Kids, People

  Jen Kirkman (2014). “I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Hard Work, Difficult Work, Israel

  Walter Brueggemann (1999). “The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant”, p.49, Fortress Press

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• I think a lot of people become actors because they have a great reservoir and repertoire of many different emotions they felt over their lives. It's like having a toolbox, and you go down into the toolbox and choose one or two of those that you need for a particular scenario, or something that comes up in a line.

  Maria Bello

  Thinking, Two, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2011.

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• If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about
  1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.

  Bryan Caplan

  Children, World, Nightmare

  "The 'Zero-Probability Fallacy' Fallacy". econlog.econlib.org. January 27, 2010.

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• However, if one has been playing the buy-and-hold game with quality securities, one has been exposed to a substantial amount of market risk because the valuations placed on these securities have implied overly rosy scenarios prone to popular revision in times of more realistic expectation. This is one of those times, but it is my feeling that the revisions have not been severe enough, the expectations not yet realistic enough. Hence, the world's best companies largely remain overpriced in the marketplace.

  Michael Burry

  Games, Expectations, Risk

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• Things that have never happened before are bound to occur with some regularity. You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp downward swings in markets and the economy. Whatever adverse scenario you can contemplate, reality can be far worse.

  Seth Klarman

  Reality, Swings, Unexpected

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• The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government, a New World Order.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Men, Rights, Order

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• Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.

  Gary Snyder

  World, Might, Firsts

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• It's a barrel of laughs, isn't it? It makes The Day After look like friggin'...insert name of cheerful thing here. It was one of the things that made me really worry about worst-case scenarios. There's something impish and probably somewhat therapeutic about thinking about those things.

  Charlie Brooker

  Thinking, Names, Worst Case Scenario

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Strictly from the perspective of human well-being, the richest-but-warmest world characterized by the A1FI scenario would probably be superior to the poorer-but-cooler worlds at least through 2085, particularly if one considers the numerous ways GDP per capita advances human well-being.

  Indur M. Goklany

  Gdp, Perspective, World

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• There appears to be a lot of confusion about the biological benefits of elevated CO2 because the popular media typically fails to report them. Doomsday scenarios of global warming are much more dramatic than the good news of global greening.

  Keith E. Idso

  Media, Confusion, News

  "CO2: Villain Or Friend? An Exclusive Interview With Keith E. Idso". Interview with Bonner Cohen, www.heartland.org. January 1, 1999.

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• I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Stories, Want, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.

  Van Jones

  Energy, Cost, Higher

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• We set up a bakery called Bad Boy Bakery, to cook on the inside to sell on the outside. It was huge, because it got them working. I'd give them a certificate to go back in the community with a skill. They could get a job. We set up a little bakery and it's gone crazy. I need to be that raw to do the glossy stuff. I need to get back to that kind of scenario.

  Chelsea Handler

  Jobs, Crazy, Boys

  Source: variety.com

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• Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Journalist, Either Or

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside the arteries. You could see a social reaction in which people would want to regulate this technology because they are threatened by it, and thereby cause a lot of harm. There are several scenarios that are happening at once. The other scenario is that the Japanese are going for this in a big way.

  Howard Rheingold

  Communication, Eye, Technology

  Source: medium.com

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• We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's cliché. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie, as in, the dark side.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Dark, Thinking, Car

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I am not a fan of improvisation, because it bores me. Working off a tight scenario gives you the confidence and ability to - why don't we change this a little bit and bring it back to the script. You always discover things while shooting.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Giving, Fans, Shooting

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm asking myself "Do I pack it? It could be cold." I'm inventing scenarios where I could wear it.

  Shaun White

  Simple, Leather Jackets, Gold

  Source: www.complex.com

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• This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.

  William Safire

  Mean, Years, Creating

  "The Great Unwatched" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 2002.

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• If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

  T.C. Boyle

  Art, Jobs, Mean

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.

  T.C. Boyle

  Fiction, Politician, Take Me

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I love chocolate, and I love to shop - just give me a good boutique. I like mall scenarios, too, because there's more right there at hand. I think Nashville could use some better shopping!

  Carrie Underwood

  Thinking, Nashville, Hands

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• It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a conceptual, directorial conversation about what you're trying to achieve in a theme and then trust your composer to go ahead and do that.

  Henry Jackman

  Trying, Needs, Achieve

  Source: collider.com

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• In the sometimes ridiculous action scenarios you're laughing out loud, and so the more committed and in fact the more highbrow the music is, the funnier it is.

  Henry Jackman

  Laughing, Facts, Ridiculous

  Source: collider.com

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