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• The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

  Jon Landau

  Bob, Immortality, Stability

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• My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

  Ang Lee

  Mother, Dramatic, Wells

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• I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.

  Ang Lee

  Believe, Order, Giving

  "Ang Lee, 'Life of Pi' Director, Talks Culture Shock, Anxiety And Why His Films Fit Together". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

  Christian Louboutin

  Heart, Boring, Middle

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• Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

  David Lynch

  Struggle, Life And Death, Stories

  Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2007.

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• Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Democracies Have, Self, Law

  "What #OccupyWallStreet Must Ask of Corporations and Themselves" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

  John Major

  Scottish, Parliament, Happens

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• Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

  John Major

  Troops, Fields, British

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• I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, Character, Writing

  "Producers David Benioff, Dan Weiss & George R.R. Martin Talk GAME OF THRONES Season 3 and 4, Martin’s Cameo, the End of the Series, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2013.

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• Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

  James McAvoy

  Character, Thinking, Internals

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• Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Reason, Ends, Periods

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• The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

  George McGovern

  War, Two, Iraq

  "George McGovern: Cheney is wrong about me, wrong about war". www.latimes.com. April 24, 2007.

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• I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Cinema, Television

  "Helen Mirren: UK is angry and cruel". www.mirror.co.uk. November 14, 2010.

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• I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Emotional, Victim

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• I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

  Michael Moore

  Hard Work, Thinking, Arrogance

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• I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

  Robert Mugabe

  Commitment, Agreement, House

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Military, War, Iraq

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• President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Children, Believe, Years

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• You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Thinking, Israel, Giving

  "One-on-one with Prime Minister Netanyahu". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Heart, People, President

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• People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, People, Essentials

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Country, Alternatives, Resolution

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• A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

  Joel Osteen

  Cutting, People, Effort

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• There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.

  Clive Owen

  Drama, Character, Play

  "He's a bit of an idiot but I did like him" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2006.

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• Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.

  Amos Oz

  Children, Past, Two

  Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth on PBS, 2002.

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