“Drama is this incredibly vulnerable thing, but with comedy, you have to have a sense of rhythm and be very sensitive to the pace of things.” ComedyDramaRhythmVulnerableSensitivePace Author:Emma Stone
“I did not suggest that Iran is a democracy; just the opposite. I talked about it being a repressive theocracy. What I think is indisputable is that even within this repressive regime, the political leaders there - including the Supreme Leader - are sensitive to the concerns of the population within bounds.” ThinkingPoliticalLeaderDemocracyConcernOppositesBoundsIncludingPopulationSupremeSensitiveIranRegimesPolitical LeadersTheocracy Author:Barack Obama
“I want my children - I want Malia and Sasha - to understand that they've got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves have done. That they have a responsibility to the larger community and the larger nation, that they should be sensitive to and extra thoughtful about the plight of people who have been oppressed in the past, are oppressed currently.” PeopleWantShouldChildrenHas BeensDonePastNationsCommunityResponsibilityMy ChildrenSensitiveExtrasThoughtfulOppressedPlight Author:Barack Obama
“Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets. President Obama now leaves in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won't be held accountable for their crimes.” NationsPresidentSecretRiskSecurityDangerousCrimeCompromiseSensitiveExposedPresident ObamaNational SecurityAmerican LifePrecedentTreacheryChelsea Author:Paul Ryan
“Certainly the Government has tried to handle the matter of our relations with the rest of the Continent in a very sensitive manner.” MatterGovernmentRelationHandleSensitiveContinents Author:Thabo Mbeki
“As soon as you start analyzing comedy is when the world starts to fall apart, and we're second guessing it. And we are way too sensitive.” WorldWayFallComedySensitiveFalling ApartGuessingAnalyzingSecond Guessing Author:Jeff Ross
“Bong Joon-ho is enormously sensitive to performance. He knows what he needs to see and that's all he needs to shoot. He is so daring. We don't do that in the west. We shoot everything.” KnowsNeedsPerformancesWestSensitiveDaringBongs Author:John Hurt
“Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.” MeanWeaponsKillingSensitive Author:Elie Wiesel
“If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore, it's important for the people in Tibet. Now communication is such [that] people know what is happening. Even Tibetan people would know that the Interfaith or the international group of religious people - that everybody who is religious is taking up their cause. It would help them a lot if we give them courage, and that in itself is enough.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingWellsImportantEnoughHelpingCausesReligiousGroupsProduceCommunicationHappeningsTragedyInternationalSensitiveInterfaithTibetanTibet Author:Elie Wiesel
“I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.” ThinkingSensitiveRootedPerfectionism Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.” MenDifficultInterestingFieldsProudMetsSensitiveJohnsonMost InterestingParanoidThirteenUneasyMaliciousMagnanimousUncouth Author:Bill Moyers
“When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.” KidsYoungPersonalityAnxietyFilledSensitiveShyNeurotic Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.” RepublicanDemocratEnvironmentalHarmSensitiveAgency Author:David Brooks
“You have to have hope and be sensitive to be good in your work, but it is difficult to withstand all the blows when you are sensitive and have hope.” DifficultBlowBe GoodSensitiveHaving Hope Author:Grace Lynn Kung
“The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free markets. But we're not sensitive to what that does to other people who don't have our privilege.” PeopleDoeJobsMorningWake UpUniversityPrivilegeSensitiveFree MarketColumnistsStanfordStanford UniversityOutsourced Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“["Faggot"] is a great word! The whole thing about language is, it's supposed to be broadcasting your intentions. These are my intentions and these words broadcast my feelings. If all of a sudden you have forbidden words that doesn't make the intent any better. It's just appeasing sensitive people.” PeopleIfsWholeFeelingsLanguageIntentionSupposed To BeSensitiveForbiddenBroadcasting Author:Joe Rogan
“Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have to be gung ho athletes and sensitive artists, studious nerds and gregarious social networkers, future rulers of the universe and selfless altruists.” PeopleWantWellsTwoDifferentUseSeemsTogetherArtistUniverseSocialCollegeAthleteSensitiveCharacteristicsCandidatesSelflessRulersNerdDifferent PeoplesExclusiveSocial NetworkGregariousWell RoundedStudious Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“There's so many ways in which Canada and America are inextricably connected politically, economically, socially. There's no stepping away. But at the same time, we don't have a say. Canada is a different country. Sometimes I think of it as Finland in the Soviet era. We're totally free, but we're totally free to agree, basically. If we disagree too heartily or over too sensitive an issue, then we pay a price for that.” IfsThinkingWayDifferentCountrySometimesAmericaPayIssuesAgreeConnectedErasSensitiveCanadaDisagreeSovietDifferent CountriesFinlandStepping Away Author:Bruce Cockburn
“I'm a very, very sensitive guy. A lot of people don't know that about me, but I am.” PeopleKnowsGuySensitive Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, "Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!" But as I've gotten older, and I look at the world, I think there's a lot of ways in which that kind of building up from the smallest building blocks doesn't actually account for the world. As I've gotten older, I've also become sensitive to the ways - to all that is not amenable to explanation. Things that, even if you had an explanation, what good would it be?” IfsThinkingWorldWayLooksKindKidsYoungBuildingTheoryAccountsPhysicsBlockSensitiveExplanationAtomsSmallestPhysicistBuilding UpBuilding BlocksAmenable Author:Adam Frank
“Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.” ThinkingMenIdeasDifferentRealityStrongSensitiveConventionalMasculineObedientFrailDominating Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“How in the world do you get mad at somebody for wanting to be black? That's something for which you should get a gold star. That makes you really sensitive. That makes you a really quality person.” WorldShouldPersonsStarsBlackQualityGoldMadSensitive Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.” MenWritingMeanSexQualityMarkSupposed To BeSensitiveFeminineSensationsBest WorkVirginiaContemplativeWoolf Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Governments and their hired negotiators are designing the supranational rules and pressing for their adoption and for compliance - and the US government first and foremost. These governments are elected by us, funded by us, acting on our behalf, sensitive to our will, and so, we are not mere bystanders observing the injustice.” FirstsGovernmentActingDesignMereInjusticeSensitiveAdoptionBehalfObservingComplianceBystanders Author:Thomas Pogge
“Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.” CountryReasonShareMethodInternationalCompareSensitiveReasonableGoodsHouseholdCurrencyConsumptionCommodityConsumingCalculationsExpendituresPurchasingGoods And ServicesPurchasing PowerParity Author:Thomas Pogge
“There was a deliberate decision after the failure of the League of Nations to make the next attempt to establish a global political actor sensitive to geopolitical realities. The underlying idea was to provide major states, defined in 1945 by reference to the winners in the Second World War (now an anachronism), with assurance that they could take part in the UN without jeopardising their national interests. In this regard, the UN has succeeded, as none of the big countries has withdrawn, and the Organisation has managed to achieve virtually universal membership of all sovereign states.” WorldIdeasWarCountryStatesBigsRealityPoliticalNextActorsNationsInterestDecisionAchieveMajorsUniversalRegardDefinedWinnerLeagueSensitiveWar Of The WorldsSovereignAssuranceDeliberateOrganisationSecond World WarMembershipNational InterestsGeopoliticalAnachronismLeague Of Nations Author:Richard A. Falk
“Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.” IfsWellsSelfHelpingSeemsFallBreakSelf EsteemLowsCriticismOppositesCleverEsteemSensitiveMaskNarcissismAdoptedFalling ApartOutrageLow Self EsteemLoathingNarcissistSelf LoathingGuiseHigh Self Esteem Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“It would be the death of all creativity for me if I had to sit there and be concerned with the sensibilities of a fourteen-year-old kid. Some fourteen-year-olds would revel in the book, and some would be very sensitive to it, so you can't afford to worry about that. What I worry about is good taste and getting my message across by whatever means I can.” IfsYearsMeanI CanBookWould BeKidsCreativityWorryTasteMessagesConcernedSensitiveSensibilityFourteenGood Taste Author:Robert Cormier
“A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to guide us and we probably evolved to be sensitive to Bible-Golden Rule situations. But the dilemmas faced by a worker - a journalist, an architect, an auditor - or by a citizen (what position to take on stem cell research, whether to run for office, what is the proper balance between taxation and social nets) - are not questions that can be answered by traditional texts or precedents.” PersonsRunningSocialSituationPositionBalanceCitizensTenOfficeResearchWorkersGuidesTraditionalGoldenPlentyCellsJournalistSensitiveArchitectCommandmentsStemTaxationGood PersonDilemmaGolden RulePrecedentTen CommandmentsStem CellStem Cell ResearchAuditors Author:Howard Gardner
“Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive.” KnowsLittlesCertainComplexesSensitiveFrustrationMainstreamParanoid Author:Eminem
“Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands of police officers and police departments. I think for most Whites their experience with the police has been good or neutral because they don't interact with the police as much as those in the Black community.” PeopleThinkingKindHas BeensHandsBlackCommunityWhiteAbusePoliceAfrican AmericanSensitiveDepartmentOfficersPolice OfficerBlack CommunityPolice Department Author:Bernie Sanders
“I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own if other people hadn't helped them. A straightforward capitalist society would've cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.” PeopleIfsMadeDiesCuttingModernTypeMy FriendsMy FamilySavedMade ItSensitiveCapitalistStraightforwardPsychotherapy Author:Dar Williams
“I think it comes down to the type of personality that the performing arts seem to attract. And that's outgoing, very sensitive - sometimes incredibly insecure - people, that for some reason need a lot of validation. They have a lot that they have to get out, and they choose one of the hardest professions in the world in which to exist, being as sensitive as you need to be.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsArtSometimesReasonSeemsTypePersonalityProfessionHardestPerformingSensitiveInsecureValidationOutgoingPerforming ArtsInsecure People Author:Audra McDonald
“The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.” PeopleWritingBelieveIdeasSelfCharacterPoliticalLeftI BelieveRaceSilenceDangerousOughtDemandApproachEmbraceSpeciesCriticalSensitiveSuspectsNervesPassagesFascismApologyExaminationPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessSelf-examinationGauntlet Author:C.E. Morgan
“We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph of Trump probably means that we're not going to be able to stop it at the two-degree mark that the world had been aiming for. That's very bad news, mostly because the planet seems to be more sensitive than we thought to even small increases in temperature.” WorldMeanLongTwoSeemsAbleLostPossibilityPlanetsTrumpDegreesNewsLong TimeIncreaseMarkCardsTriumphSensitiveGlobal WarmingStoppingTemperatureBad News Author:Bill McKibben
“When you have to cast movies from a producer's standpoint - when you've been on the other side of casting sessions - you just get a completely different perspective on what that process is of getting a job for an actor. You realize how completely impersonal it is. If anything, I think it's made me a lot less sensitive. So much of this is logic and business, and it's got nothing to do with whether people are good or not. Unfortunately, I think that's one of the last things that gets factored in when you're assembling a cast.” PeopleThinkingDifferentRealizingPerspectiveLogicSensitiveDifferent Perspective Author:Max Minghella
“I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.” ThinkingMankindSensitiveGreedyFlawedNeedy Author:Craig Kilborn
“People ask could I have written the show I wrote in 1990 now, and I don't think I could. I think it's much easier to offend people nowadays. People have grown quite sensitive, I think.” PeopleThinkingSensitive Author:Jennifer Saunders
“I do think that if you are trying to think empirically about the relationship between conscious experience and the underlying physical reality, wine provides an excellent practical example. Winemakers manipulate the chemicals they are dealing with in a way that is very sensitive to the kinds of effects it will have on the subjective experience of tasters - this is not an accident.” ThinkingTryingKindRealityConsciousWineExcellentSensitiveManipulate Author:Tim Crane
“There are some people who are way too sensitive about things. If you're not using the vocabulary that's new that they've helped define, then you're not on their team, even though you want to be. And at the same time, the fact that our president Donald Trump said on record, "You could just grab women by the pussy," and a lot of people in America were like, "Yeah, it's fine, that's something that's said..." There are people that are not sensitive or aware enough about other people and what that means.” PeopleMeanEnoughPresidentTeamSensitive Author:Colin Jost
“Remember, one in every five people in America goes hungry and there are certainly a whole lot of folks who are getting three meals a day who do know where their next week's food is coming from who are very sensitive to this issue who would like everybody to be fed. Add to that the number parents who have children in schools who would like their children to be eating healthy, wholesome food and don't want sugary sodas or chocolate milk to be chuggable at any moment of the day by their kids.” PeopleChildrenMomentsKidsSchoolRememberParentHealthyEatingHungrySensitiveChocolate Author:Andrew Zimmern
“I think that is a responsibility we all share as Americans. But as State Department employees, we have a special duty to guard ourselves and our sensitive information. Complying with department policies and being alert to potential threats will help protect all of us.” ThinkingHelpingResponsibilityShareSpecialPolicyDutyProtectThreatSensitiveEmployee Author:Hillary Clinton
“From where I started to where I'm at right now I'm loaded in retrospect to the opportunities that I have. As far as money and the scheme of the world, I don't cash in. I do films because I'm sensitive and maybe stupid, and that I feel like I'm going to have fun on and feel like I'm going to have a good experience with. It's not about punching in and selling soap.” WorldFilmOpportunityFunStupidSellingHaving FunSensitive Author:Michael Pitt
“I don't mean to give performance art a bad name or anything; I think there are people that are legit. I think I just got frustrated painting - I love painting; I actually tried to be an artist, but it's sensitive, and then you have an object. And what do you do with that object? And then repeat and repeat, blah blah blah.” PeopleThinkingGivingMeanArtArtistPaintingSensitiveFrustrated Author:Mary Lynn Rajskub
“ACT psychology is a psychology of the normal. A lot of the psychologies that are out there are built on the psychology of the abnormal. We have all these syndromal boxes that we can put people in and so forth. The actual evidence on syndromes is not very good. There's no specific biological marker for any of the things that you see talked about in the media. Even things like schizophrenia - there's no specific and sensitive biological markers for these things. There may be some abnormal processes involved, but vastly more of human suffering comes from normal processes that run away from us.” PeopleRunningSufferingPsychologyEvidenceVery GoodSensitiveRunning AwaySchizophreniaHuman Suffering Author:Steven C. Hayes
“Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems .” ProblemConsciousElectionGenderDiscriminationSensitiveSexism Author:Blake Lively
“To break up with a girl: be direct. You have to behave the way you would want her to behave, and I would want the door to be closed. You have to be sensitive but honest. You have to be a gentleman and do it in person. You have to look her in the eyes.” EyeGirlBreakHonestDirectSensitiveBehaveGentleman Author:Bradley Cooper
“To me, a performance is a military operation; it requires so much planning, and then ripping up the plan the minute you get there because you have no idea what the audience is feeling. I'm very much an entertainer, and sensitive to the audience's perception of me. I often have to do unexpected things, even for myself.” FeelingsAudienceMilitaryPerceptionPlanningSensitiveUnexpected Author:Chilly Gonzales
“I'd heard rumors about Oliver Stone before we went to work on and I don't get it. To me, he's one of the most sensitive directors. He is just fascinated by why people act in the ways that they do. His movies are an excuse to explore that idea, and he wants to work with people who are as passionate about exploring it as he is. So we got along brilliantly.” PeoplePassionateExcuseSensitiveExploringRumor Author:Josh Brolin