Situation Quotes - Page 11

• Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.

  Martin Buber

  Mother, Distance, Book

  Martin Buber (1963). “Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman”

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• Everybody needs a fan, and the support and the encouragement. We're human beings; that is an essential part of the equation. When that fan is not there and when you're in a situation that triggers you on a historical level, you behave impulsively. You can destroy years worth of work professionally, personally, in a moment of being triggered by that.

  Jillian Michaels

  Encouragement, Years, Support

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other. That's kind of why I like to be an actor because I get to play different characters and pretend I'm different people going through different situations.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Character, Play, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: Josh Hutcherson Talks Firehouse Dog". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. March 30, 2007.

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• Getting to do different genres of movies means you're gonna have different types of situations. So I want to try and do every type of genre there is out there.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Mean, Trying, Different

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "Perfection" to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, "I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do." Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.

  Drake

  Perfection, Walks, Visuals

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, Conjecture, Handle

  "Laura Linney Interview THE BIG C". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

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• I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, Boredom, Lazy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 29, 2007.

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• Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.

  Stan Lee

  Character, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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• I love to continue to challenge myself and put myself in situations that are slightly uncomfortable.

  Ron Perlman

  Challenges, Uncomfortable

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.

  Queen Latifah

  Long, Facts, Littles

  "Queen Latifah Takes Her Last Holiday". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. January 11, 2006.

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• The wrestling, even though I would only wrestle for 15 or 20 or 30 minutes at a time, and it would look like that was the only time I was in it, was really a 24-hour job. Keeping yourself alive, reinventing yourself, staying physically in shape, the traveling, all the other commitments with being a wrestler, it was a crossover situation where it became sports entertainment and you actually became a media star, so it was very demanding.

  Laila Ali

  Sports, Jobs, Stars

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.

  Richard Lewontin

  Work Out, Gravity, Currents

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.

  Jack White

  People, Being Positive, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation.

  Edward Zwick

  Different, Would Be, Way

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I'm in a great situation because I know what kind of player I want to be, I know where I'm going to be, and I know what I have to do to get there and I'm around the right guys.

  La'el Collins

  Player, Guy, Want

  "La'el Collins Q&A: Cowboys Rookie on Murder Investigation and Draft Plummet". Interview with Bleacher Report, bleacherreport.com.

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• Sometimes you get into a situation and realize that there is so much more to explore there and ask, why are we jumping off the cliff quite yet?

  Michelle King

  Sometimes, Realizing

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

  Diane Keaton

  Beautiful, Self, People

  "Diane Keaton on Woody Allen's feet, Al Pacino's nose" by Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. April 28, 2014.

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• My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.

  Anne Hathaway

  Way, Film, Minutes

  "The Actress Roundtable". Interview with Matthew Belloni and Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 17, 2012.

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• A leader is someone you are not disappointed in placing trust in. When that person makes suggestions, you are inclined to trust [them]. Often it is people who have been there [in a similar situation to the people he or she is leading]. They would generally be people who are ready to take the risks themselves. Most leaders would be people who don't ever give commands and remain at home and let the foot soldiers be the ones who bear the brunt.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Feet, People

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• There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.

  Solange Knowles

  Hip Hop, World, Juxtaposition

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. February 12, 2014.

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• Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me I've got a tumor in my brain. And when you face those situations, they transform you, they change you, and when you're able to break through them to a new level, they allow you to have gifts to give other people.

  Tony Robbins

  Mother, Father, Doctors

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

  Clint Eastwood

  Analyzing, Kind, Like You

  "Clint Eastwood Describes His Near-Death Experience, Says 'American Sniper' Is Anti-War (Exclusive)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.

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• I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot.

  Richard Branson

  Struggle, School, Thinking

  "Screw Business as Usual: an interview with Sir Richard Branson". Interview with Todd Miller, blog.sfgate.com. January 9, 2012.

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• The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation. I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.

  Bill Nye

  Technology, Dangerous Situations, Breathing

  Source: biologos.org

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• Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.

  Elton John

  Home, Years, Addiction

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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