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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want artists to find themselves in a situation where there are only two buyers. That just doesn't seem like a good outcome.
- Nov 07, 2020
The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.
- Arts
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.
- Fortnight
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
- Nov 07, 2020
In a confrontational situation, you'll get their gut. And I want their gut! And that's why people watch this show!
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the sci-fi movies where it's from the point of view of humans in that situation... When it becomes too clever in its ideas, the cyber-punk, high-tech thing, it becomes more about something else.
- Interaction
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- Nov 07, 2020
In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.
- Nov 07, 2020
One might argue that proper understanding of any social situation would require game-theoretic analysis.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020