Tension Quotes - Page 18

• I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Alternatives, Conflict

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.

  Al Sharpton

  Thinking, Sides, Decree

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.

  William Kristol

  Party, Political, Isms

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

  Eliza Hittman

  Brooklyn, Old And New, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant social critic, he foreshadowed the destructive trends happening now in the whole Western world and beyond, while always maintaining a sense of humanistic hope and dignity. He explored palpable, yet unspoken, intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies and the inevitable, if unnameable, tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.

  Raoul Peck

  Class, Identity, World

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.

  Kate Bush

  Sex, Good Life, Thinking

  Song: Symphony In Blue, Album: Lionheart, 1978

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• America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Winning, Creating, America

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

  Narendra Modi

  Believe, People, Development

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mean, Black And White, Long

  Source: www.mott.org

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• My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if you can find a way to build those into the story, then the story becomes a process of deconstructing and heightening and sometimes changing those notions and that makes dramatic tension. The initial statement of your position, and then letting reality act on you to change it, is pretty good storytelling.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Reality, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

  John Michael Higgins

  Drama, Comedy

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• We should not rule out the possibility that Trump's diplomacy could deescalate Middle East strife and international tensions, give the US a lower global profile and enable a more balanced world order to emerge, doing most of its damage here at home, through moves to implement his vision of nativist nationalism.

  Richard A. Falk

  Moving, Home, Order

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Some of [Donald Trump] comments can be interpreted as potentially reducing the threat of nuclear war. The major threat right now is right on the Russian border. Notice, not the Mexican border, the Russian border. And it's serious. He has made various statements moving towards reducing the tensions, accommodating Russian concerns and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Moving, Mexican Border

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I was talking to a friend of mine who's a teacher in Iowa and, you know, she teaches kids - English is their second language, and they're scared that they're going to get sent home, their family's going to get broken up. Regardless of whether [Donald Trump] does it or not, whether it's true or not, the rhetoric creates a climate of fear and tension, and that's not good for the country.

  Margaret Hoover

  Country, Teacher, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think good things come out of having tension with the people that you work with. You've got to be arguing in order to produce something interesting. If everyone's just agreeing with each other, you're not going to push the boundaries.

  Felicity Jones

  Thinking, Order, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Nondiscrimination is a great American principle. It's a core American principle, as is religious freedom. When you have two important American principles coming into tension, into conflict with one another, our goal as Americans is to sit down and try to see if we can uphold both.

  Charles Haynes

  Religious, Two, Goal

  "In Religious Freedom Debate, 2 American Values Clash". www.wbgo.org. February 28, 2017.

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• My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm a John 3:16 Christian, I believe God so loved the world, I do believe that, and I believe that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish. But I also believe, you know, predestination from the foundation of the Earth. So to me, I'm able to hold tensions in my mind rather than having to explain them. To me, I don't fit in a real good box and I believe them both.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Real, Believe

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• I was worried that I, the artist Morimura, would have conflicts with the participating artists and develop a strenuous relationship with them. But the actual experience was completely the opposite. The artists accepted my requests rather positively, because it came from a fellow artist. I strongly feel that the fact that my being an artist avoided the usual curator vs artist tension, and led to creating a positive atmosphere as well as developing a solidarity amongst artists and building a community for artists.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Artist, Opposites, Creating

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty are looking bright. You're dealing with human beings on the cutting edge, and there's bound to be tension. You have to be make room for that, and you can't be too unreasonable, because that's everybody else's role.

  John Lydon

  Cutting, Years, Healthy

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

  Lauren Hutton

  Faces, Your Face, Ends

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• If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.

  Connie Zweig

  Intimate Relationships, Views, Opposites

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I work as a dancer, but I also work as a choreographer with couples that have a lot of tension between them, and as dancer and as a choreographer, being in this situation is very difficult. You see the energy doesn't flow, and it's very tense.

  Blanca Li

  Couple, Dancer, Energy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I would want to acknowledge is that perhaps the tension, the crucial tension, isn't necessarily between the view of bullfighting as a tradition versus as an art form, but between the values inside the ring and the values outside the ring.

  Bette Ford

  Art, Views, Leaving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Clint Eastwood enables and allows things to happen. You walk on some sets and it's like walking into an emergency room. It's like, "Come on guys, we're just making a movie here." That tension runs into the performances and into the movie.

  Matt Damon

  Running, Guy, Rooms

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Perhaps I should say that in general there are three solutions to such a situation. I mean not only in Holland, but everywhere where there are minority groups: in America, in Vietnam with the Chinese. Everywhere there is the same problem. But there are fundamentally three, actually only two possible solutions. A possible solution is that the despised minority is able to establish its own state somewhere else. The other solution is a higher or lesser degree of assimilation. And the third possibility, which is not a solution at all, is the permanence of the tension and conflict over time.

  Norbert Elias

  Mean, Chinese, Problem

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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