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A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.
Aminatta Forna / Writer
Good Place
Good Place Good Place
Dilemmas
Hospital
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Our ideological dilemmas won't ever be solved by machines.
Charles Best /
Ideological
Machines
Dilemmas
Solved
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
H. L. Mencken / Journalist
Funny
Life
Choices
Constant
Horns
Oscillation
Between
Dilemmas
Life Is A
Sharp
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Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
Allen Klein / Speaker, Author
Humor
Seconds
Sometimes
Ten
Years
Dilemmas
Ten Years
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Stories are told not to preach or counsel people but to reflect the dilemmas of our time.
Sobhita Dhulipala /
Our Time
Counsel
Dilemmas
Preach
Reflect
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
Kate Christensen / Novelist
Heartbreak
Resolution
Cure
Dilemmas
Untenable
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As a producer, I am dying to explore psychology and urban dilemmas - say, fatigue - in a marriage.
Ekta Kapoor /
Dying
Fatigue
Psychology
Urban
Dilemmas
Explore
Producer
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This sounds really weird, but I feel like God has given me so many beauty dilemmas so I can help people.
Huda Kattan /
Weird
Dilemmas
Help People
Sounds
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Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.
David Zabel /
Contemporary
Ethical
Moral
Navigate
Audiences
Dilemmas
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker / Writer
Bloody
Author
Dilemmas
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
Tamora Pierce / Writer
Character
Needs
Real
Realism
Strive
Dilemmas
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As we continue to apply AI to new fields, ethical dilemmas will arise and the answers will not be clearly defined.
Will Hurd / U.s. Representative
Answers
Arise
Defined
Ethical
Fields
Ai
Apply
Clearly
Dilemmas
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One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.
Fareed Zakaria / Journalist
American Workers
Workers
Great Will America
American Companies
Dilemmas
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One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.
Annie Lennox / Singer-Songwriter
Different
Dilemma
Want
Dilemmas
Indeed
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For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.
Steven Seagal / Actor
Buddhism
Individual
Dilemmas
Seek
Specific
Teachings
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
Guy De Maupassant / Writer
Genius
Liars
Lying
Simplest
Skills
Wonderful
Women Are
Dilemmas
Extricate
Skill
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There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?
Danny Devito / Actor
Dilemma
Skulls
Two
Go
Stay
Dilemmas
How
Human
Hang
Rattle
Rid
Skull
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The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
F. Sionil José / Writer
Conscience
Depiction
Infallible
Moral
Compel
Dilemmas
Distinctions
Literary
Right And Wrong
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We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain quite specific pains and dilemmas of our psyches.
Alain De Botton / Writer
Certain
Historical
Order
Reading
Quite
Aside
Works
Respond
Dilemmas
Invite
Put
Pains
Specific
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Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.
Alison Gopnik / Writer
Intense
Moral
Achievements
Dilemmas
Joys
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The thriller protagonist is really just us in extremis. He or she is this individual who is placed under enormous pressure, has huge moral dilemmas and decisions to make.
David Farr /
Enormous
Huge
Individual
Moral
Pressure
Decisions
Dilemmas
Enormous Pressure
He Or She
Placed
Protagonist
Thriller
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My grandmother grew up in a 19th-century world, and my daughter has grown up in a 21st-century world, and some issues, problems, dilemmas that these women face have not changed.
Tommy Lee Jones / Actor
Women Face World
Dilemmas
Grown
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Sci-fi is about 'what if this happened,' and 'what would you do.' You can play around with social dilemmas, or look at society or, in my case, relationships, in a very different way.
Morten Tyldum / Film Director
Sci Fi
What If
Dilemmas
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I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.
Josh Hartnett / Actor
Bored
Character
Visuals
Weekend
Dilemmas
Remarkably
Same Story
Similar
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If we want to have good workers and good citizens, we need to create common spaces in which individuals can talk about the moral and ethical dilemmas that they have faced and how they resolve them.
Howard Gardner / Psychologist
Ethical
Resolve
Workers
Dilemmas
Faced
Good Citizens
Spaces
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Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
Peabo Bryson / Singer-Songwriter
Happiness
Alone
Answers
Being Alone
Giving
Lyrical
Oneness
People
Regret
Togetherness
Content
Dilemmas
Whatever
Opposed
Regrets
Provide
Terms
Sense
Thoughts
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To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Elements
Love Is
Opposition
Suffering
Love Truth Work
Brings
Creates
Dilemmas
Ending
Love Work Truth
Happy Ending
Rarely
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Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
Q'orianka Kilcher / Film Actress
Important
Important Things
Stories
Stuck
Things In Life
Life World Your
Life World Important
Dilemmas
Reminds
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In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.
Q'orianka Kilcher / Film Actress
Chance
Caught
Granted
Kind
Littles
Peru
Life Chance Your
Dilemmas
Extent
Furthest
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Flea markets tend to be overwhelming. A lot of times, when I go with a first-time shopper, they don't buy anything. The rooms in my new book involved real people with real design dilemmas. They were paralyzed to make a decision.
Lara Spencer / Journalist
Flea Markets
Overwhelming
Paralyzed
Rooms
Dilemmas
Flea
New Book
Real People
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On slower days, when I was only needed for coverage or reaction shots, the set of 'The Newsroom' was better than therapy. Chris Chalk and I would debate life's dilemmas... until Sam Waterston would chime in and set us both straight.
Adina Porter / Actress
Chalk
Coverage
Debate
Therapy
Chris
Dilemmas
Newsroom
Reaction
Sam
Slower
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We have the wrong impression of life. We think the very big incidents of our lives are consequences of huge dilemmas or major decisions. If we paid attention, we'd realize that the determining incidents in our lives are ordinary things.
Asghar Farhadi / Film Director
Attention
Huge
Impression
Incidents
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Our Lives
Paid
Decisions
Consequences
Determining
Dilemmas
Wrong
Major
Realize
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Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?'
Pope Benedict Xvi /
Government
Authority
Citizens
Common Good
Generations
Requirements
Advance
Anew
Appeal
Good May Must
Dilemmas
Each Generation
Extend
Governments
How Far
Impose
Reasonably
Resolved
Seeks
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One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.
Bjarke Ingels /
Architecture
Certain
Seems
Type
Actually
General
Catch-22
Commissioned
Dilemmas
Incredibly
Types
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I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Amusing
Behave
Character
Consolation
Farce
Knowing
Mind
Outrageous
Always Mind Keep
Dilemmas
Finds
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The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.
Zack Snyder / Film Director
Crime
Dark
Fighting
Imagine
Knights
Moral
Today
Today World Face
Thing
Face
Bat
Batman
He
Dilemmas
Set
Dressed
Exactly
Objective
Parallel
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I don't think that a Singularity would be visible to those going through one. Even the most disruptive changes are not universally or immediately distributed, and late followers learn from the reactions and dilemmas of those who had initially encountered the disruptive change.
Jamais Cascio /
Disruptive
Followers
Reactions
Singularity
Visible
Dilemmas
Encountered
Immediately
Initially
Universally
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Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become emotional or confused to the state of inaction. Even worse, they try to solve a short-term problem in a way that hurts them financially in the long run.
Kenneth Fisher / Manager
Inaction
Investors
Short Term
Uncertainty
Confront
Dilemmas
Hurts
Each Year
Even Worse
Financially
Hundreds
Long Run
Traumatized
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With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time.
David Lowery /
Existential
Narrative
Technique
Transcendent
Wonderful
Dilemmas
Explore
Fears
From Time To Time
Hopes
Supernatural
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One of the main dilemmas that's pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the idea that maybe there's a finish line and that maybe there's a time in your life when you start to slow down and stop and smell the roses and just kind of settle into what will be a comfortable period in your life.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Comfortable
Common
Finish Line
Getting Older
Smell
Life Time Your
Life Time Start
Lot
Pretty
Idea
Dilemmas
Down
Period
Getting
Finish
Older
Just Kind
Line
Main
Maybe
Slow
Roses
Settle
Start
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Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of order and chaos, which is really central to the ancient Egyptian understanding of the world, is still very much with us.
Rick Riordan / Author
Ancient
Chaos
Egyptian
Central
Dilemmas
Resonates
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I like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you're carrying a film, there's a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character. When you're in an ensemble, you have to convey the entire character in a limited number of scenes.
Carla Gugino / Actress
Ensemble
Weight
Carrying
Convey
Dilemmas
Explore
Limited
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I think people crave those meaningful situations, stuff about faith, identity, dilemmas of live paradoxes in our souls. It's going back to a time where lives were really defined by history, and also how you behave in the face of history. It's kind of interesting to go back to that simpler humanity, simpler but deeper.
Pawel Pawlikowski / Filmmaker
Behave
Crave
Deeper
Defined
Humanity
Identity
Interesting
Meaningful
Dilemmas
Paradoxes
Simpler
Souls
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Bill Clinton and Barack Obama represented somewhat different party factions, but they both embodied wonkery, a vision of competence and expertise governing to some extent above ideology, in which there are assumed to be 'correct answers' to policy dilemmas that a disinterested observer could acknowledge and the right technocrat achieve.
Ross Douthat / Author
Acknowledge
Answers
Barack
Competence
Disinterested
Expertise
Factions
Governing
Ideology
Assumed
Barack Obama
Bill Clinton
Correct
Somewhat
Dilemmas
Embodied
Extent
Observer
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Who wouldn't want to be wizard, at least for a day, as long as you didn't have the dilemmas and the situations that Merlin was thrown into. I'd be happy if you could actually use the powers to have a bit of fun and do something good for the world and maybe for yourself, whereas Merlin's kind of limited in that he has to look after Arthur.
Colin Morgan / Film Actor
Arthur
Thrown
Good World Yourself
Be Happy
Dilemmas
Good Look World
Wizard
Limited
Powers
Something Good
Whereas
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