Tension Quotes - Page 15

• Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.

  Dennis Prager

  America, White, Black

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• The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, America, Black

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• Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while.

  Nigella Lawson

  Lying, Ducks, Sauce

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• Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

  Andy Stanley

  Helping, Problem, Sometimes

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• It's a lot of accumulated joy and tension and all kinds of emotions just pouring out of all us. We've all been preparing for this day and we all knew that one day we would just have to move on with our lives and careers even though we all love this show and love working together. But it's still an incredibly emotional time, especially for me with a lot of journalists asking me how it feels about FRIENDS coming to an end. It's started to make me think very deeply about what it's all meant to me and that's made me ever more emotional!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Moving, Emotional, Thinking

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• Hell is hot, fire. But I tell you, you are providing your own coal. This is how things are: If you move against nature you will be in misery. Misery means moving against nature, and misery is a good indication - if you understand. It shows that somewhere you are going wrong, that's all. Put things right! Misery is a help. Anguish, anxiety, tension, are indications that somewhere something is going wrong. You are not with the total. Somewhere you have started your own private movement - and then you will be in misery.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Mean, Fire

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• Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold War tensions - the tendency is to counteract the feelings of fear and vulnerability with a variety of military, paramilitary and police measures, despite the reality that this kind of excessive reliance on force in many ways intensifies the very problem it is purporting to solve.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, War, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Edwidge Danticat: The “Create Dangerously” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 23, 2010.

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• A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Recovery, Thinking, People

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of details that consists in one person going on a walk. And as a consequence, there is a necessary tension between the determinacy and indeterminacy, the definite and the indefinite, of possibility.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Play, Theatre, Details

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Real, Book, Reading

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists, for example, or a work by Cage. For me, there's a great value in doing this with literature. There's a certain form of dependence; process and product inform each other, depend on each other. I consider myself a writer who doesn't write with a style, almost. I begin with tension, with a vibe, a character.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Character, Writing, Style

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What I love most about yoga is that you can make it whatever you need it to be. For me, it's a time set aside to pay attention to the stress, concerns, and tension that may have infiltrated my system.

  Grace Gealey

  Stress, Yoga, Needs

  "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars.

  Laura Moriarty

  Strong, Long, Age

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

  Satish Kumar

  Roots, Greed, Political

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we workshop we talk a lot about the deeper subject, which is what the story or novel is about. I think defining a narrative's themes can lay bare a narrative's tensions.

  Edan Lepucki

  Simple, Thinking, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the result of the great tension and power condensed into each piece, all well and good.

  Roy Kesey

  People, Stories, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.

  St. Lucia

  Thinking, Young, Stills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now. Yes, there is tension between the two of them.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Past, Two, Focus

  "Alycia Debnam-Carey on ‘The 100′ Season 3 and ‘Fear the Walking Dead’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 21, 2016.

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• I think we are living in an era of being hyper-concerned about, Is it us? Because we have this historical awareness. People really want to know: will it be us or our kids or our grandkids to live through this? We don't want it to happen, we don't want to be the ones with the poisoned water, but at the same time, I think there is this curiosity, like, Am I one of the "lucky" ones who gets to be here at the end? That's the tension I'm interested in.

  Lucy Corin

  Kids, Thinking, Water

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, War, Book

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• I think it's important to remember the tensions between Turkey and Russia predate this jet shoot down by some time. I mean, Russia's long been Bashar al-Assad's strongest backer.

  Peter Kenyon

  Mean, Thinking, Russia

  "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• The problem is, if at all, in the different view of the economy, of economic growth. Growth is too low, even for us. That needs to change: More investments, a stronger role by the European Central Bank. Otherwise, there are no tensions between Italy and Germany. But on this point, compromises must be reached and we will reach them.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Views, Growth, Stronger

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Jesse Owen was bigger than a black hero, he was an American hero. For me, I looked at it from that perspective. Through my research, I obviously learned a lot, much of which made me sad, upset, disappointed and even angry, regarding what Jesse had to go through. Not only was he a black man in America during an age of high racial tension and segregation, but he was also living in the middle of the Great Depression - it was very difficult times for him and his family.

  Stephan James

  Hero, Men, America

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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