Quotes About Disagreement

'Strictly Sinatra' became a compromise between me and the producers, and neither of us liked the results much.

Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive U.S. foreign policy and intelligence should be.

There are things that I do agree with in Christianity and things that I don't agree with. I'm not a regular churchgoer, but I do think that I have my own beliefs that I feel strongly about.

That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it.

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

It feels like we're all so familiar now with the traditional three-act structure that, actually, stories that are more complex, more naughty, that allow for disagreement and discussion, are more interesting to us.

I have trouble applying the 'whistle-blower' label to someone who just disagrees with the way our country is structured and operates.

If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.

What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions.

I think it's important to be up front with where you differ with your opponent and be ready to take that on.

Am I crazy? My opponents say I am, but I disagree.

As shadow foreign secretary, I have been as clear in my support for the government when it does something we agree with as I am in highlighting that which we oppose.

Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.

My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.

Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.

It's not a fun thing to be the person set up in opposition to the work everyone loves.

Not every opposition party believes the same thing.

The opposition believes that we should allow people to vote without even showing a shred of identification. Canadians disagree.

So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.

You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.

I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

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

The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.