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“The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.”

Thinking Way Wells Two Song Process Situation Gone Depends

Author:Michael McKean

“I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.”

People Want Humans Looks May Two Helping Bigs Humanity Human Beings Situation Mirrors

Author:Mira Nair

“In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.”

Years Has Beens Two Jobs Past Situation Millions Effects Taxes Rate Relief Two Years Soar Revenue Deficit Over The Past

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“I have two children. They're grown children. I don't think they particularly enjoy it when I'm in a dangerous situation, but they also understand that this is something I feel strongly about. It's what I've done my whole life.”

Thinking Feels Children Two Done Whole Enjoy Situation Dangerous Whole Life Dangerous Situations Grown Children

Author:Martha Raddatz

“The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.”

Two Ends Games Situation Equal Average Valuable Queens Pawns

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

“Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.”

Writing Two Stories Situation Solve Features Short Story

Author:Gene Wolfe

“Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.”

People Two Differences Situation Dramatic Complaints Dramatic Situations

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“Only those who see that the two sides of all phenomena, visible and invisible, are front and back or beginning and end of one reality can embrace any antagonistic situation, see its complementarity , and help others to do the same, thereby establishing peace and harmony.”

Two Ends Helping Reality Sides Situation Fronts Harmony Embrace Helping Others Invisible Visible Two Sides Peace And Harmony Beginnings And Ends

Book:Macrobiotics: The Way of Healing

Source: Macrobiotics: The Way of Healing

“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

“If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have a pretty good idea of how they're going to respond. Then it's just a matter of sanding and polishing up the jokes. But if you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. These two characters clicked for me almost immediately and I feel very comfortable working with them.”

Ifs Feels Wells Two Ideas Matter Character Situation Personality Comfortable Jokes Sticks Good Ideas Plastic Stereotype Ambiguity Ambiguous

Author:Bill Watterson

“We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.”

Years Two Seems Past Situation Policy Gains Regard Raised Two Years Sustainability Equity Caution

Author:Alan Greenspan

“My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you. Also, you could try to distance yourself emotionally from the whole situation. In my case, I just look at it objectively: We are two guys going inside a cage to work. That's it. Try to de-escalate the pressure. Take a couple of deep breaths. Don't hype things up. And stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.”

“You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it.”

Knows Two Nations Situation Know How Week Majors Stronger Hurricanes

Author:James Green

“I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place at the right time and it's the right situation, it clicks. I've always felt that I've connected with screenplays. It's the romantic in me.”

People Ifs Kind Said Two Together Felt Situation Affair Connected Right Time Right Place Love Affair Screenplays Clicks Like Love

Author:Robert Zemeckis

“You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own.”

Men Firsts Littles Two Problem Girl Social Situation Boys Saws Higher Degrees Majors Men And Women Dating Towns Backgrounds Defined Decent Popularity Ongoing Containing Major Problems Mead

Author:Margaret Mead

“Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because we get involved in some very interesting situations. We'll be on a plane and she gets handed a Braille menu because they think she is blind, or producers that turn to the director of a show she's on and say, "Marlee Matlin is great, but is she going to be deaf for the whole show?" She used to freak people out with the speaker phone in her car by having me sign what they were saying on the speaker phone and then she would speak herself.”

“If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.”

Ifs Want Two Would Be Energy Situation Planets Billions Best Things Being The Best Poorest

Author:Bill Gates

“I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.”

People Thinking Knows Men I Can Two Happens Law Artist Suffering Situation He Man Gay Men And Women Leaving Russia Isolated Avenues Bans Gay Men

Author:Elton John

“Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match.”

Want Years Two Different Situation Two Years

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“Celestial marriage is for the fullness of the glory of god. It is the crowning glory. A man has no right to one wife unless he is worthy of two.... There is no provision made for those who have had the chance & opperternity and have disregarded that law. Men who disregard that law are in the same situation as if they broke any other law. they are transgressors.”

Ifs Men Made Two Law Chance Situation Wife Glory Worthy Broke Fullness Provision Celestial Glory Of God Disregard Polygamy Disregarded Crowning Glory

Author:Francis M. Lyman

“my choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of myself outside of them. ... Inside every biological and social situation I am free to make decisions.”

Two Law Choices Social Decision Situation Biology Sociology

Author:Nina Berberova

“In life we all go through different situations that cause you to reflect. I had the opportunity to be married to a wonderful person. And for some reason two good people couldn't make a good thing work. But in life, the one thing that I love about being an artist is that you can sometimes use the pain that you go through to make beautiful things.”

“In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.”

Persons Two Sides Situation Cases Weakness Subtle Coins Gears Two Sides Strength And Weakness

Author:Steve Jobs

“The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.”

People Ifs Two Character Film Pleasure Talking Situation Knowing Seeing Shots Tables Irony Classic Bombs Hitchcock People Talking Knowing More

Author:Richard Ayoade

“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.”

Source: Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman

“The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the size of the economy doubled because of technological progress and growth, the two would roughly cancel out and it would all be a totally manageable situation.”

Ifs Two Problem Growth Situation Economy Progress Size Debt Technological Manageable Austerity Technological Progress

Author:Peter Thiel

“Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.”

Knows Two House Situation Limits Members Evidence Rejoice Unbearable Insidious Industrious

Book:Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.”

People Ifs Way Want Trying Persons Two Song Situation Written Terrible Agree Optimistic Hopeless Disagree Factions Diplomats Agree To Disagree

Author:Michael Stipe

“I love my situation as a spectator. The actors are only a little bit ahead of the audience. The audience discovers the episode when it's screened, but we actors only discover the episode when we get the script, two weeks ahead of shooting. Until then, we know nothing of the evolution of our characters.”

Knows Littles Two Character Actors Bits Situation Audience Week Evolution Little Bit Scripts Shooting Episodes Spectators Two Weeks

Author:Richard Sammel

“It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.”

Giving Two Situation Advice Circumstances I've Learned I Have Learned Threatening

Author:Andy Rooney

“I do think that it is no surprise that, economically, America is in trouble. There's been a lot of trouble out there. More and more women have found themselves doing phone sex and things like that, to help pay bills, so that they could be two-income households. They can do these short-term jobs and still pick up their kids at school, at the end of the day, and drop them off in the morning. I find it fascinating. I'm not one to judge the people in that situation, nor would I really want to.”

“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.”

Years Two Jobs Process Situation Approach Comparison Identical Years Of Experience

Author:Charlie Kelly

“I like to say two things in life that mean the most: genetics and luck. When you look at it realistically, genetics is luck too. Because you could have been born in some really terrible situation and never had a chance to realize yourself or see who you were. And so the luck of genetics and then after that, circumstances, those are the two guiding things.”

Looks Mean Has Beens Two Realizing Born Chance Situation Circumstances Terrible Luck Two Things Things In Life Could Have Been Genetics

Author:George Carlin

“The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]”

Two Ends Pain Past Life Is Chance Situation Teach Karma Ems Cycles Gaps Life Experience Another Chance Life Teaches

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.”

Two Shows Problem Faces Levels Situation Player Seasons Constant Expected Improvement Handle League Plates Minors Inability Umpires Inconsistent Constant Improvement

Author:Jim Evans

“During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.”

Two Play Games Given Situation Roles Player Week Students Members Training Finals Following Coaches Managers Camps Staff Feedback Two Weeks Staff Members

Author:Jim Evans

“Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing silly things. You don't even realize it. And then there's other times where they're two feet away from your face and it's invasive and it feels threatening, so you don't want to be smiling. You just want to get out of that situation.”

Knows Want Feels Two Sometimes Faces Realizing Situation Laughing Feet Silly Your Face Heels Threatening Kicking Paparazzi Silly Things

Author:Dianna Agron

“I do disguises for different reasons. I like to study people - be like the fly on the wall. Even if it's two old ladies sitting on a bench or some kids on a swing. Because I don't know what it's like to fit in an everyday life situation.”

People Ifs Knows Two Different Reason Kids Situation Study Wall Fit Sitting Everyday Swings Disguise Everyday Life Benches Old Lady

Author:Michael Jackson

“Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.”

Two Difficult Situation Conditions Mankind Historic Armament

Author:Pope Paul VI

“Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.”

Humans Two Different Able Situation Perspective Science And Religion Different Perspective

Author:Jeremy Griffith

“I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.”

Knows Years Two Real School Situation Thousand High School Real Life France Phrases Thousand Years

Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“And now we get down to two magic words that tell us how to accomplish just about anything we want to accomplish, two powerful words that can change any situation, two dynamic words that all too few people use. And what are these two amazing words? Do it!”

People Want Two Use Powerful Situation Magic Accomplish Powerful Words Magic Words

Book:Power of the Plus Factor

Source: Power of the Plus Factor

“If you were the government you would get the people being angry and trying to find hope to believe something new again. So we didn't have time to do that. It was just two years, the most difficult situation in Greece.”

People Ifs Trying Years Believe Two Government Difficult Situation Angry Two Years Something New Greece Difficult Situations

Author:Eva Kaili

“A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.”

Giving Humans Littles Two Values Situation Advice Listening Circumstances Realization Relate I've Learned Threatening Human Relations Human Relationships Inquiring

Author:Andy Rooney

“Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.”

Long Two Character Growth Situation Elements Obedience Range Maturity

Book:Effective Biblical Counseling

Source: Effective Biblical Counseling

“Keys to Finding Hope: 1. Hope depends upon taking care that we have at least two alternatives, in every situation we find ourselves, and with every task confronting us. 2. In any situation, no matter how much we may feel we are at the mercy of vast forces out there, that are totally beyond our control, we can always find something that is within our control, however small, and work on that. 3. Nothing that happens to us is just senseless and meaningless. In the context of our total life, it will eventually turn out to have meaning.”

Feels May Two Matter Happens Care Turns Force Situation Keys Depends Findings Tasks Mercy Alternatives Meaningless Confronting

Author:Richard Nelson Bolles

“If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'”

Ifs Way Firsts Two Helping Running Chance Situation Player Harder Drawing Working It Defenders Good Chance

Author:Johan Cruijff

“I did always want to write. And then, when I left New York, where I was working very steadily in the theater - I had done three Broadway shows in a row and was a bit burnt out - I moved out to L.A. and I was not working very much. I came in cold and I'd work for a week, but then I'd have a month or two off. I thought, "I'm going to go crazy unless I actually do write." Like a lot of things in life, it was a situation that came about by circumstances.”

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Author:Jim Piddock