Quotes About Conflict

You know when they say you need to put people who go well together? I much prefer to put people who fight at the table. Then you have some sort of sparkle at the dinner!

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.

The people, when they say 'Death to America!' - do you know what they are really saying? What they mean to say relates to the aggressive policies of the U.S. and intervention and meddling by the U.S.

I was in the Pacific. The Pacific Theater, as they say.

In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

Liberalism is a cancer; it's a forest fire; it destroys every single thing it touches.

I saw a lot of bad things happen by people I know and to people I know. There were a lot of different gangs around and sometimes you found yourself in conflict. I found myself attracting negative things because I was in a negative environment, I was pre-determining this stuff before it happened.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

The focus is on the Middle East, so there are a lot of eyes on the battlefield. But there are other things that are happening around the world, in Northern Africa, things happen in the Southern Hemisphere and in Central and South America.

Things happen on the field. It has happened between me and other players, but we always left it out there.

When you fail to communicate, there are gray areas. And when there's gray areas, then bad things happen.

You can't halfway disrespect me ever in my life and think we are going to be OK later.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are doing the right thing.

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.