In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
Herb Caen
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The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.
Deborah Cox
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I like conflict - someone who challenges me, someone who I can look up to, someone who can keep me in check. Love has to be extraordinary; otherwise, there's no point in it. I just haven't met anyone who's made me feel that way.
Ranbir Kapoor
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Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
John Avlon
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'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.
Hillary Clinton
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In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
Chen-Ning Yang
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
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The bottom line is that the impacts of climate change can exacerbate resource competition, threaten livelihoods, and increase the risk of instability and conflict, especially in places already undergoing economic, political, and social stress.
John F. Kerry
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I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.
Giles Duley
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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
Brian Eno
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
Ori Gersht
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If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don't know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict.
Andrea Roth
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When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has a little bit of friction, conflict, absurdity.
Gore Verbinski
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Everybody goes through a period where you're fighting a lot, I think. Sometimes that can be a good thing for your relationship. That conflict can lead to making up.
Brad Paisley
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The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.
Nancy Gibbs
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My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.
Meg Ryan
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We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.
Fred Thompson
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News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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The art cars are the public transportation system. And that requires regulation because, lately, we've had art cars that don't want people on board and that want private parties, and that's in conflict with the communitarian feeling and the interactive aspect of society.
Larry Harvey
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I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.
John Mahoney
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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
Emily Blunt
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One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance.
Anthony McCarten
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter
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