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“Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.”

People Way Bigs Challenges Situation Time Travel Monkeys Big Challenges

Author:Rian Johnson

“It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.”

Winning Situation Comedy Stressful

Author:Jordan Peele

“You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.”

Want Jobs Results Deals Situation Bats

Author:Anthony Rizzo

“I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.”

People Thinking Situation Security Rivers West Agreement Territory Israeli Jordan

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“Doesn’t the God who created the universe out of nothing and put all the stars in place, have the power to take care of your situation?”

Care Universe Stars Situation Take Care

Author:Jim Cymbala

“All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.”

Situation Miracle

Author:Mark Batterson

“Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.”

Trying Difficult Voice Situation Paid Opposition Keep Going High Prices

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.”

Children Justice Situation Equal Treatment Equal Treatment

Author:Jerry Brown

“Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.”

Mean Opportunity Difficult Situation Greater Saying No Downsizing Getting Fired Learn To Say No

Author:Samuel Dash

“Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations.”

Knows Way Turns Community Situation Conversation Speech Various Appropriate Speakers Grammar

Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

“The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.”

Knows Way Should Important Stories Able Process Situation Tragic Adoption Adopted Open Adoption

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.”

Character Situation

Author:Will Gluck

“I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.”

Humans Wells Three Situation Human Nature My Family Observers Back And Forth

Author:Lily King

“You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.”

Kind Eye Certain Realizing Situation Doors Calling Rico

Author:Rico Love

“Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis's 'Glamorama.”

Way Firsts Looks Character Used Names Situation Novel Lists Brands Toms Brand Names

Author:Peter York

“In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.”

Real Would Be America Stars Quality Situation Hollywood Claims Lists Brands Ads Cigarette Manufacturing Tobacco Hollywood Stars

Author:Peter York

“The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.”

Want Persons America Moving Situation Band England Available

Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus

“I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.”

People Needs Feels Trying Hate Situation I Hate Boxes Bored Freak

Author:Stephen Daldry

“We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.”

Way Two Enough Helping Three Situation Dangerous Conversation Solutions Discussion Flaws Good Enough Three Things Not Good Enough

Author:Edward Felten

“It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.”

Sin Situation Break Military Majors Contracts

Author:John Walker Lindh

“If you want to understand what's happening to the situation in a town in Afghanistan, go down to the market. Is it vibrant? Is it safe? That will tell you an enormous amount about the security situation.”

Ifs Want Situation Security Amount Safe Happenings Towns Enormous Afghanistan

Author:Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

“I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.”

People Thinking Said Ideas Real Matter Lasts Night Song Culture Girl Left Situation Subjects Albums Pops Pop Culture Subject Matter Duran Duran

Author:Nick Rhodes

“Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Facts Passion Situation Know How Knowing Failing Judging Discipline Prejudice Know Yourself Adjustment

Author:Bernard Baruch

“Think Big! Expand your thinking first and your situation will soon follow.”

Thinking Life Firsts Bigs Motivational Situation Think Big Thinking First

Author:Loral Langemeier

“The prayer of faith is a prayer willing to believe and prevail for God's answer in a situation that is utterly impossible. Regardless of the difficulty of the situation, you require no external confirmation but believe God in spite of appearance. Your eyes are on God, not on the situation.”

Believe Eye Prayer Answers Situation Impossible Willing Difficulty Appearance Spite Believe In God Confirmation

Book:Mighty Prevailing Prayer

Source: Mighty Prevailing Prayer

“Education is the ability to meet life's situations.”

Ability Education Situation Educational

Author:John Grier Hibben

“The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.”

Different War Form Turns Decision Situation Moral Issues Military Battle Degrees Constant Factors Wars And Battles

Book:Why Don't We Learn from History?

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.”

Ifs Doe Decision Situation Achieve Military Produce Battle Aim Strategy Strategic Continuation Dislocation

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.”

Ifs Men World Has Beens Political Mother Desire Culture Winning Situation Teach Survival Daughter Strategy Males Betray Hostile Mother Daughter Adrift

Author:Elizabeth Debold

“The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.”

Love Important Choices Courses Difficult Situation Response Allowing

Author:Meredith L. Young-Sowers

“Find the Silver Lining: When things don't work out the way you wish, always look for some positive outcome to the situation working out the way it did. For example, you can always be grateful that things didn't turn out even worse.”

Way Looks Turns Wish Situation Example Gratitude Grateful Work Out Outcomes Silver Be Grateful Positive Outcome

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.”

Moments Next Situation Judgment Next Time Snaps Opposing Viewpoints Snap Judgment

Author:David J. Lieberman

“Focusing on getting the most out of every situation is stressful. Focusing on giving the most in every situation is liberating.”

Inspirational Giving Situation Liberating Stressful

Author:Hal Elrod

“If you want more energy, put yourself in situations where energy is required. Your body will naturally respond and always produce the energy you need, but not if you're just sitting around complaining about not having enough energy.”

Ifs Want Needs Enough Body Energy Situation Produce Sitting Wake Up Complaining Your Body Sitting Around Waking Up Early

Author:Hal Elrod

“Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.”

Trying Important Situation Focus Our Lives Wake Up Busy Manage Making Time Waking Up Early

Book:The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM

Source: The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM

“Forgiving behavior is dealing with situations as they arise in an assertive manner and then letting go of any lingering resentment. As the leader, if you are not able to let go of the resentment, it will consume you and render you ineffective.”

Ifs Able Situation Leader Letting Go Behavior Forgiving Arise Resentment Lingering Assertive

Author:James Hunter

“The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.”

Trying Art Hurt Situation Mark Maturity Martial Arts

Author:Ryron Gracie

“I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.”

“[...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media - none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty.”

People School America Church Situation Successful Media Creating Mass Loyalty Reform Opposition Voting Patriotic Mass Media

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“As long as you visualize this sphere of red energy surrounding you, negative thoughts, hostilities, anger, and aggressive feelings of other persons and situations cannot enter you.”

Persons Long Feelings Energy Situation Red Negative Aggressive Spheres Hostility Visualization Negative Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.”

Feels Looks Feelings Acting Situation Buddhism Mindfulness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.”

Has Beens Done Happens Action Causes Situation Karma Situations In Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.”

Ideas Facts Forget Situation

Author:Will Ferrell

“There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness.”

Difficult Situation Awkwardness Difficult Situations

Author:Jemaine Clement

“I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.”

I Can Situation Crowds Performing

Author:Rick Nielsen

“I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something that sounded like a song. The musicians are there and they don't quite have it together, and then the engineer says, "Oh! That's okay, I'll just cut and paste the verse!"”

Together Song Order Realizing Situation Cutting Couple Band Musician Okay Engineers Verses

Author:J. Robbins

“You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.”

Ifs Want Needs Moving Situation Break Ridiculous Conventions Breaking Down Need You Utopian

Author:Lev Grossman

“I was a door-to-door window salesmen in what feels like a cheap, creepy pedophile situation. And I can say that because we were a bunch of kids driving around in the back of some old guy's van and it was creepy. Now that I look back on it I get chills of creepiness.”

Feels Looks I Can Kids Guy Situation Doors Window Driving Bunch Chill Vans Creepy Salesman Old Guys

Author:Joseph Bruce

“To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in the exact same place, seemed crazy.”

Actors Situation Crazy Hair Episodes

Author:Michael Loceff

“Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.”

Humans War Human Beings Situation Extremes

Author:Boaz Lavie

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