- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Situation Quotes
How people actually respond when a situation shows up.
A few situation quotes here come from unexpected angles, one performer recalling how much fun an odd voice role turned out to be, another imagining a better outcome if future leaders had taught in high-need schools first. The Best collection covers related optimism.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt Helen Willis was in tune with the situation of a black woman married to a white man, and she had no problem being black.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it, and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I've been working on it ever since.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am most supportive of organizations whose goal is to increase the living situation of those less fortunate than myself.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many kids who are bullied feel helpless. Sometimes, they think the only thing they can do is hope the problem will go away. But there are things you can do to get some control in the situation and it starts with developing a strategy and a support system.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
My proudest moment was the number 'Reviewing the Situation.' I suspect that, because I gave my all to the role and because I was working with such a fine team of people, it inhibited my future career.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being nice can be funny. A lot of my jokes are like, 'Let me take a bad situation and try to put the best spin on it.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average person - if you had a situation that hit your family and you needed to do something, you would not just go and take a vacation, or you would not do something that's not related to the task at hand. But in Washington, that just seems to be par for the course.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thinking of writers living in East Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They wrote fantastic stuff but were dealing with a situation that was almost impossible to deal with, but they found a way.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020