Confrontational Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
— Francesca Annis
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The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo…
— Richard Dawkins
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We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries.…
— Camille Paglia
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I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was…
— Andre Agassi
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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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The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a…
— Matthew Shipp
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Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
— Barbara De Angelis
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Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together
— Scilla Elworthy
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There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational,…
— Bobby Knight
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The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
— Roger Mudd
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I'm only confrontational with my friends.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I'm a non-confrontational person. If I order salmon and I get chicken, I'm going to eat the chicken.
— Danny Pudi
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I feel like I've come off as an outspoken woman. Sometimes I think I've come off as confrontational. But I feel like it's been pretty…
— NeNe Leakes
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My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has…
— Joanne Harris
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There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but…
— Max Lucado
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We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to…
— Denise Mina
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She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion,…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew. It…
— Huston Smith
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I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive…
— Annabelle Selldorf
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
— Francesca Annis
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