Situation Quotes - Page 33

• If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally - you focus, you highlight that dimension of it, if that's what is needed to change the situation.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Focus, Males

  "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

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• I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it.

  Bob Hoover

  Opportunity, Thinking, Skills

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• In every moment, we make a choice about which direction we are going to go. Once we realize that this is a self-correcting and self-organizing universe, then we don't have to look any further than our own life circumstances, the relationships and situations that we are in, to begin the transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self, Choices, Looks

  Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

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• There is a relationship between humor and fear. Think of all the gags you ever heard that have to do with dismemberment, or something that's horrible in one way or another, even if it's just horrible in the sense that somebody's being embarrassed. What do kids laugh at? Kids laugh if your fly's down. That's hilarious. But for the kid whose fly is down, it's a horrible situation.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Laughing

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• Directing is a big responsibility to take on. I think I'm only good at doing things I know very well. I don't direct movies because I get offered the new vampire movie or science fiction movie. I don't get offered those, anyway, but if I did, I would just tell 'em, "Look, I'm the wrong guy." I only do things about people and situations, and I do the ones that I think I'm the best guy for the job on, which is usually something I generate myself.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Jobs, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.

  Judd Apatow

  Thinking, Should Have, Magic

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• I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fun, Night, Rocks

  Source: jontrott.com

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• Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security.

  Jean-Marie Guehenno

  Needs, Aspirin, Ingredients

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The reality is [in] any emotional situation, a compulsive eater eats or an alcoholic
  drinks. What people misunderstand is that when you're a compulsive overeater,
  you don't just eat when things are bad. You eat when you feel anything.

  Jeff Garlin

  Reality, Emotional, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me.

  Trae tha Truth

  Brother, Rap, Kind

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• Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.

  Andy Biersack

  Creating, Perfect, Storm

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• I love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it's not so much trying to be funny, it's trying to be real in a messed up context. That's comedy to me.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Stupid, People

  "Will Ferrell: 'I Am Kind Of Boring To Me'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I've come to realize that when people are not reaching their highest potential or whatever goals they set out for themselves, they're more inclined when they're going through pain. When they're going through a negative situation. They're more inclined to hear me than when they're doing well.

  Eric Thomas

  Pain, Goal, People

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• A lot of families deal with messy, inconvenient situations. Because that's life. Life doesn't turn out and it's not perfect. My life hasn't been perfect but it's what I'm going to make out of it.

  Michele Bachmann

  Perfect, Messy, Deals

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• Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there on the spot, and that's rarely the case in acting. You have to know who the character is, what the situation is and what is needed.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.aparchive.com

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• Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick of myself. But then another idea starts percolating. It usually begins with the narrator's name, then some idea that intrigues me about her life or situation. I try to ignore it as long as I can, because I know when I start writing, I'll be right back into it, every single day. But eventually, I just have to. It's a compulsion!

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Writing, Tired

  Source: fortheloveofya.com

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• Your soul is that part of you that always strives for harmony, toward cooperation, toward sharing, toward reverence for life and as you choose, in each moment, to align yourself with harmony, or at least not to create more disharmony in the situation you're in, then you are consciously choosing to align yourself with your soul. You are consciously moving toward authentic power.

  Gary Zukav

  Moving, Soul, Reverence For Life

  Source: www.williamjames.com

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• I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

  Don Rickles

  Weakness, Whole, Jokes

  Source: adambulger.blogspot.com

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• Every extra year you spend in a better environment makes you more likely to go to college, less likely to have a teenage pregnancy, makes you earn more as an adult, makes you more likely to have a stable family situation, be married, for instance, when you're an adult.

  Raj Chetty

  Teenage, Pregnancy, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Men, Creating, Greek

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. April 2007.

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• Everyday life inspires me, the situations that we all find ourselves in at one time or another.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspire, Everyday, One Time

  Source: blog.calendars.com

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• The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Voice, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought ridiculous stuff. I bought a snake bite emergency kit. Then I said to my friends, "Don't even worry about snakes anymore". My friend stepped on a worm, and I said, "Lay down!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• It's always really cool when you get to play with someone who you like and they go out of their way to be nice to you; it's not just a 'oh I played with them but I didn't meet them' sort of situation, so shout out to those guys for being awesome.

  Hoodie Allen

  Nice, Play, Guy

  Source: blog.ticketmaster.co.uk

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• No two situations are identical, but with years of experience you can usually find a comparison to something you did before, which shortens the process of deciding how to approach a job.

  Charlie Kelly

  Jobs, Years, Two

  Source: www.oipolloi.com

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