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“If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.”

People Ifs Feels Sometimes Social Situation Comfortable Socializing

Author:Tobey Maguire

“In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria is being strangled, it is no exaggeration to recognize him as morally guilty, for the great part of his rìle here, still more than elsewhere, has consisted in corrupting, degrading, and disintegrating.”

Ifs Way Stills Whole Political Social Responsibility Situation Economic Jew Guilty Attributes Elsewhere Exaggeration Degrading Algeria

Author:Chuck Hagel

“'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.”

Real Reality Social Fiction Situation Organization Real Life Statements Wire

Author:Lance Reddick

“The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.”

Problem Social Difficult Situation Economic Military Isolated Social Problems

Author:Eamon de Valera

“Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.”

“I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.”

People Ifs Social Situation Ill I Realized Ease

Author:Martine Franck

“I apologize to everyone who was offended by my insensitive tweet about the situation in Egypt. I've dedicated my life to raising awareness about serious social issues, and in hindsight my attempt at humor regarding a nation liberating themselves against oppression was poorly timed and absolutely inappropriate.”

“I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.”

Way Feels Wells Social Situation Drink Drug Normal Alcohol Nervous Uncomfortable Guts

Author:Johnny Depp

“Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.”

Art Self Reality Social Situation Communication Art Is Connections Sufficient Distortion Corrections Self Sufficient Modification Unendurable

Author:Jean Tinguely

“In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.”

People Self Lasts Social Poor Situation Produce Expression Resources Capacity Chaos Desperate Rebellion Existential Sensibility Poor People Resorts Avenues

Book:The Cornel West Reader

Source: The Cornel West Reader

“To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.”

Self Age Individual Social Results Effort Situation Failing Pride Morality Demand Adjustment Individual Morality

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“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.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.”

Games Individual Force Social Situation Roles Psychology Theory Conflict Ethics Structure Consideration Shortcomings Dynamics Social Structure

Book:Fights, Games, and Debates

Source: Fights, Games, and Debates

“I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal segregation and discrimination has been pretty much abolished there isn't the sort of universal mandate that a black leader would have. Black folks live in a wide variety of social situations right now.”

Thinking Needs Has Beens Social Bits Black Situation Leader Right Now Universal Folks Wide Myth Discrimination Variety Segregation Mandates

Author:John Legend

“The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.”

“Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.”

Thinking Social Situation Welcome Thinker Thinking Too Much

Author:Terence McKenna

“In social situations I still feel scared. My best friend and husband give me the freedom to be myself.”

Giving Feels Stills Social Situation Husband Give Me Scared My Best Friend

Author:Susannah Constantine

“It is not enough for the Church to be engaged with the State in healing social ills, though this is important at times. But when the world can turn around and see a group of God's people exhibiting substantial healing in the area of human relationships in their present life, then the world will take notice. Each group of Christians is, as it were, a pilot plant, showing that something can be done in the present situation, if only we begin in the right way.”

“If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.”

Ifs Way Together Social Situation Growing Groups Extremes Gaps Disorder Haves And Have Nots

Author:Ross Kemp

“Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.”

Knows Mean Form Social Situation Behavior Empty Letters Debt Customers Friendly Reminders Really Mean Social Behavior

Author:Judith Martin

“When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.”

Source: Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

“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

“Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change.”

World Needs Real Problem Night Social Situation Theory Defined Real World Need A Change Social Problems

Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“I will never try to steer myself into a situation that I know might create a discussion after the race any protest immediately cuts down on my social hours after the race is over.”

Knows Trying Might Social Hours Race Situation Cutting Discussion Protest Steers

Author:Buddy Melges

“You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scattered thoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something or someone in our fog-induced state, that strange feeling of not quite “being all there” when out in social situations, the pall that covers everything, like a cloak of sadness that never lifts.”

Ideas States Feelings Social Forget Grief Situation Worry Sadness Strange Constant Lifts No Idea Grieving Spouse Fog Cloaks

Author:Mary Potter

“The things we sing about are timeless. Political affairs and social situations come and go. But if you're singing about empowerment and not playing by the rules, you can sing about them until you can't sing anymore.”

Ifs Political Social Situation Singing Empowerment Affair Timeless Comes And Goes

Author:Paul Stanley

“I always try to be a champion of social change and anything that brings awareness to a really dire situation.”

Trying Social Situation Awareness Champion Social Change

Author:Kenna

“Whereas children can learn from their interactions with their parents how to get along in one sort of social hierarchy--that of the family--it is from their interactions with peers that they can best learn how to survive among equals in a wide range of social situations.”

Children Social Parent Situation Wide Range Interaction Peers Hierarchy Social Hierarchy

Author:Zick Rubin

“Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or whether it was in a social situation. And with kids, you just can't. The rule is you can't really do that because they dictate and they change so much so you just have to go with the flow more and be present and not have big expectations and be amused all the time.”

World Hard Bigs Kids Social Situation Baby Fit Expectations Understood Flow Surroundings Amused

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?”

Believe School Asks Social Situation Known Son Drinking Workers Saved Reform Remedy Resorts Psychiatrist Axioms Social Worker Actuality Counselor

Author:James Lee Burke

“People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.”

People Feels Social Chance Situation Missing Fronts Example Insecure Humiliation Exhibits Dominance Tease Submissive

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

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