#argue

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#bound #could #creative #creative life #easily

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway. ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#anyway #argue #good #just #lose

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#good #leader #much #otherwise #too

I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#argue #because #being #brilliant #cherished

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. ↗

— William Kirby

#always #argue #calculation #conflict #could

Why argue about things you can't prove? ↗

— William Ruckelshaus

#argue #prove #things #why #you

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#against #argue #argument #credible #criticise

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#because #claimed #common #construct #genes

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#argue #concept #race #subjective

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#better #directors #enough #films #grosses