Arguing Quotes - Page 16

• In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.

  Andrew Solomon

  Responsibility, Luxury, Anxiety

  "Foreign correspondent Andrew Solomon on 'Far and Away,' Gadhafi's Libya". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. April 7, 2016.

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• Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon because it says everything about us as people. It's a subject we very quickly begin to argue about. I think that's so interesting.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think I ever would have had a problem being vulnerable or introspective but the problem with drinking is it's very hard to zero in on one part. You're not dealing with anything in real time, you're constantly moving and constantly going. You're drinking to get away from things, things your dealing with. My wife might be calling me trying to argue and I don't wanna deal with it so I just go drink and by the time we talk again I'm so drunk I just don't care. I'll just deal with it however.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Zero, Real, Drinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I'm arguing for progressive positions on behalf of a progressive administration in front of a court who, before Justice [Antonin] Scalia's death, had a conservative majority that was quite conservative, frankly.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Justice, Majority, Administration

  "Farewell to the General". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Some people may argue that if the animals are treated humanely prior to being slaughtered, this justifies their confinement and slaughter. Is it ethical to rob beings of their freedom but give them a comfortable prison and provide them with food until they become fat enough to be slaughtered? Any way you look at it, farms are places where animals are kept in preparation to be slaughtered and ultimately eaten as food.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, People, Giving

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Lions and other carnivorous animals do a lot of things besides eat meat. They live outdoors, not in houses; they don't wear clothes or drive around in cars; they usually sleep for many hours after eating a meal. Why cite just one of the many things that they do and argue that we should imitate them? This doesn't make much sense.

  Sharon Gannon

  Sleep, Animal, Clothes

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• There are many activities that human beings have been doing "forever." We might argue from that perspective that eating meat should be allowed to continue. Men have been raping women for thousands of years; does that mean that it is normal and should be allowed to continue?

  Sharon Gannon

  Mean, Men, Years

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I believe strongly that we need a finance industry that is good for the economy, and I don't think anybody would argue that during the eight years leading up to the Great Recession, a lot of bets were made [and] risks taken that weren't good for the economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taken, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think we've got to look at corporate law. Back in the day when I studied it, there were different constituencies that were to be served, and I think there was a real wrong turn about 20 to 25 years ago when the theory began to be promoted that your highest duty - in fact, some would argue, your only duty - is to maximize shareholder return. I just don't buy it. And it wasn't the original underpinnings of the legal theory of corporate law.

  Hillary Clinton

  Real, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Many scientists would argue that we are now in what is called Extinction, and it's caused by this perfect extinction storm: climate change, habitat loss, pollution, unsustainable exploitation of species and habitat resources, and of course, human population explosion. All of these factors work together and conspire to drive a species to extinction on our planet, every half an hour.

  Jeff Corwin

  Loss, Perfect, Storm

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• There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

  Aaron Bruno

  Song, Artist, Sides

  "Interview: AWOLNATION Musician: Aaron Bruno". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.

  D. A. Carson

  Writing, People, Awkward

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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• To sit with George [Clooney] and argue about what we're passionate about was amazing. We're good at arguing our points of view and are all about doing what was best for the movie [ "Gravity"].

  Sandra Bullock

  Views, Passionate, Gravity

  Source: acttwomagazine.com

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• [ John F.Kennedy's friend] Chuck Spalding at the wedding said Jack was two guys: the groom and somebody else observing from a distance. ... It must have been maddening to be married to a guy like that, but you could at the same time argue that characteristic kept the world from being blown up.

  Chris Matthews

  Distance, Two, Guy

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• I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative. And the idea that somebody would come there and say those things that I said created an atmosphere where some people would walk out, and suddenly they weren't in the minority. For an hour and a half, they were the majority. So I would argue that it does need to be said.

  David Cross

  Ideas, White, People

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• Without agreement you just have people arguing.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Agreement, People

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• When we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way we look at it with men. Women have more often worked within the home, working equally as hard, I would argue, but not always out there where they're counted, not always up there in the labor unions, certainly not in leadership positions.

  Adele Logan Alexander

  Home, Men, Different

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• It's an interesting place to begin where the country is completely divided into choosing sides, when the only side everyone should be choosing is the side of America, and then politicians essentially should be arguing about the best way to serve America.

  Trevor Noah

  Country, America, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's actually technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism, you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor, biting down on a wooden spoon so as not to disturb the men's card game, before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field.

  Caitlin Moran

  Men, Games, Giving

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.

  George Saunders

  Lying, Media, Data

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• [This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral and political considerations or to the facts of everyday life. [...] But more often than not, if you give the skeptic everything he wants, then he will be successful in repulsing your attacks and terrorizing your position.

  Dale Jamieson

  Philosophical, Successful, Giving

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• There is no need to argue if an experiment can be made.

  Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville

  Needs, Chemistry, Made

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• Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the pendulum.... They seem to have an un-argue-out-able position, as is the manner of sophists, but this is no guarantee that they are right.

  Anthony Standen

  Science, Thinking, Swings

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• Read your work out loud. Don't give me that look. Read your work aloud. Don't argue. Don't fight. It will help. I promise. I promise. I guarantee it. If you find it didn't help you, lemme know. I will let you Taser me in the face. And by "me," I mean, some other guy who will be my stand-in. Probably some real estate agent or tollbooth attendant.

  Chuck Wendig

  Real, Writing, Mean

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• If someone puts his trust in God in a matter, let him not argue with his brother about it.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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