#confront

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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I'm only confrontational with my friends. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

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Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid. ↗

— Maya Lin

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The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert. ↗

— Pierre Loti

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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

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But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

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Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification. ↗

— Jim McKay

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