Situation Quotes - Page 15

• I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life. Now, that's crazy. And if you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or whomever around their office. On average. And so I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax. I think the rest of the country should be paying less.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Country, Crazy, Thinking

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of what's so fun for, I think, many people when they first start to want to be an actor, is that they realise they enjoy making up a world around them to exist in, a whole situation and a whole way of being. And even more so than theatre, animation requires that because there's just nothing to go on. It's in your head and your heart or it's not there at all.

  Jim Parsons

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Important, World, Demand

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I think you can learn to have much more pleasant thoughts moving through your mind that will help ease any situation, and it takes making a conscious choice to do so.

  Louise Hay

  Moving, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• I have tremendous empathy for people who are faced with any kind of a chronic problem. Sometimes when we're in this situation, it's as though our mind has us believe that if we ruminate about the pain we'll find a way out.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Pain, Believe, People

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

  Kevin Hart

  Firsts, Violent, Fronts

  "Ice Cube & Kevin Hart: The Newest Buddy Comedy Stars". Interview, www.refinery29.com.

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• I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Writing, Character

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• 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.

  Paul Stanley

  Political, Empowerment, Singing

  "Kiss: Miley Cyrus is 'being treated unfairly'". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.salon.com. September 12, 2013.

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• In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.

  Peter Thiel

  Mean, Growth, Progress

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

  Peter Thiel

  Two, Growth, Progress

  Interviewed with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Technology, Games

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I had gotten rid of the crying when I got to high school, though it happened again when I was a junior. We lost in the state championship. It was kind of the same situation, camera in my face, and then that's when I realized it was over I had my moment.

  Chris Bosh

  School, Cameras, Juniors

  "Not a Third Wheel: A GQ&A with Chris Bosh". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. January 12, 2012.

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• I like the smell of toast. Coffee is okay, but I don't drink much coffee. But toast is a nice smell. You smell some toast coming from your kitchen in the morning, you know that you're involved in a domestic situation and the operation that's going on is pleasant.

  Robert Duvall

  Morning, Nice, Coffee

  "If You Hire Robert Duvall Not to Flinch, He Damn Well Won't Flinch". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 16, 2014.

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

  Kenna

  Champion, Trying, Awareness

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

  Usher

  Children, Thinking, Nine

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

  Walter Hill

  Drama, Action, Humans

  Source: collider.com

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• My teachers used to tell me you need to learn to adjust to fit the situation. Don't just do what you've always done because it might not always work.

  Buck Brannaman

  Teacher, Needs, Done

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that power to try and do what I can - or we have - to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.

  Elton John

  Couple, Russia, Trying

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger wherever that may have come from. As I got older, it became or is coming more from a place of wanting to use the craft to help others in some way, to hold a mirror up to the situations that we're going through, to actually be more cautious about the way that I use the power of film and to see if there's anything that I can do in the performances that will resonate in the public a similar string that's on people's minds and is on my mind. That way we have that relationship.

  Nicolas Cage

  Passion, Helping Others, Mirrors

  "Q & A: Actor Nicolas Cage Looks Ahead With 'Knowing'". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2009.

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• Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears.

  Robert Greene

  Hurt, Moving, Past

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you have a lawyer, sometimes you can get out of trouble. I've gotten into a lot of trouble because I didn't have a lawyer. I've also had some bad lawyers, too. But the good ones, the ones I liked, they became me. They became whatever situation I was involved in. When I felt pain, so did they. When I succeeded, so did they. They became me. They became whatever the situation was that they became involved with.

  Mike Tyson

  Pain, Lawyer, Sometimes

  "Mike Tyson: 'You Have To Feel Comfortable Being Uncomfortable'". Interview with David J. Parnell, www.forbes.com. November 18, 2014.

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• 2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.

  Curtis Jackson

  Fate, Thinking, Knowing

  "50 Cent Talks Get Rich or Die Tryin'". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 8, 2005.

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• You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

  John Cleese

  Self, Ego, Inappropriate

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2009.

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• There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.

  Forest Whitaker

  Jobs, Character, Opportunity

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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