Situation Quotes - Page 38

• When you have a food safety system that's voluntary and not mandatory, you're in a situation in which everybody wants everybody else to go first. So as a normal course of doing business, food companies cut corners and don't want to take the kind of trouble and the kind of testing and the kind of careful procedures that are required to produce the safe food because they don't have to.

  Marion Nestle

  Cutting, Safety, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To me, it's, "How do I tell a story that will keep the audience engaged?" A great story does that: it's not exactly what you expect.

  Richard Shepard

  Character, Bored, Doe

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option.

  Jay Inslee

  Moving, Responsibility, Cutting

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• Women in particular seem to say things like, "I'm sure I'd be the one screaming and not moving in an emergency." I don't think that's the case. People who've been through really horrible life-or-death situations say that nobody behaves the way they would have expected. But that said, there are predictors.

  Amanda Ripley

  Moving, Thinking, People

  "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.

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• The health of your family or your office or your city directly affects the health of it after. The better you are at handling high-stress situations with little information, those skills lead to resilience and the ability to recover afterward.

  Amanda Ripley

  Stress, Skills, Cities

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People with military experience seem to do very well in these situations. They've been taught that they can control their destiny, which is half the battle. They also have some experience in getting out of bad situations even if just through training. They know they have to make a plan and follow it and execute it.

  Amanda Ripley

  Military, Destiny, People

  "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.

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• As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

  Asne Seierstad

  Men, Violence, Accepting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

  Asne Seierstad

  Believe, News Stories, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The remarkable thing about Hitler was his talent for dissimulation. His formidable abilities as an actor are often overlooked. There are only very rarely situations where we can say he was being genuine.

  Volker Ullrich

  Actors, Talent, Genuine

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• I like being the one who makes a difference. On the pitch, I always try to create a special situation.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Differences, Special, Making A Difference

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.

  Gloria Steinem

  Powerful, Men, Important

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Individual, Competing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Optimistic, Thinking, Analysis

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Determination, Men, Complicated

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Ever since our country came into existence, we have always assumed that we are better than the Arabs. But we are noticing that these are no longer backward people. Suddenly we are confronted with a new situation - the fact that the Arab world maybe thinks just as democratically as we do, perhaps even more democratically. Where does this leave us? After all, we're supposed to be the only democracy in the Middle East!

  Tom Segev

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Political, Agendas, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Ideas, Creating

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Real, West, Compliment

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Revenge, Ignorance, Hands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's understandable that Europe's Muslims are in a difficult situation, which is partly their own doing and partly not.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Difficult Situations, Europe, Difficult

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you have whores and your ties are shiny?"

  Pharoahe Monch

  Artist, Circles, Ties

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• I'm not necessarily a happy person. I don't think that happiness is always the right response to a situation. I think we've come to a point in time where people are saying, "Oh, you know, loss and change, that's just normal."

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Loss, Thinking, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think it's a really good thing to put yourself in a situation where you feel really uncomfortable because I think things can come out of that discomfort.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Thinking, Good Things, Uncomfortable

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is about discomfort and making myself as uncomfortable as the men feel, or putting myself in a situation where I'm revealing my loneliness as much as they're revealing theirs.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Fun, Loneliness, Men

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about in the grocery store tabloids my mom bought, situations that struck me as compelling, anecdotes I'd heard, images, words, metaphors.

  Dan Chaon

  Mom, Writing, Everyday

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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