Quotes About Conflict

What I do know from my life is the phenomenon of saying, 'This is too small a thing to argue about', but then nevertheless finding oneself in that argument.

I think Phil Jackson started that feud. It happened many times that after team practice he would say, 'Kobe said this about Shaq, and Shaq said that about Kobe... ' We couldn't believe how could that happen, because just the day before we saw them together, jumping on one another.

The name of the show was 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' not 'Philip and Viv of Bel-Air.' If you didn't want to walk away from the best job in the world over a petty issue, you accepted the way it was.

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.

Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

In the Bigg Boss' house, you don't have phones, you don't have places to run away. The only options are fight or flight.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.

The phrase 'All is fair in love and war' must have been penned by a divorce attorney.

It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

I come from a background where, if someone is rough and tough, you handle things physically. People betrayed me, and you just want to choke them. But you choose forgiveness.

There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with.

You know, you pick and choose your battles.

Lee Daniels, even though he owes me $2 million, I picked that. I put him in business.

I fight the same way as my dad! I've picked that up from him. We both get angry really fast and very intensely, and then get over it very quickly. You need to be good at apologising if you fight like that.

Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.

A group of girls didn't like me and picked on me on a daily basis.

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.