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So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
Ellen DeGeneres

Marriage, Live, Bad

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Thomas Sowell

Battle, Win, Down

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
Drew Barrymore

Life, Good, Happy

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
Lord Acton

Down, Later, Issue

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
E. O. Wilson

Society, Group, Individual

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.
Temple Grandin

While, Risk, Subject

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
Paul Ryan

Fight, Person, Reason

The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.
Jerry Saltz

Good, Bad, Revolution

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
Allen West

Country, America, Greatness

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.
Hugh Jackman

Time, Night, Before

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Lord Acton

Long, Short, Used

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt

Politics, History, Freedom

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Fear, Two, Choices

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.
Russell Simmons

Money, Successful, Help

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.
Lindsey Graham

Different, Friends, Election

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Between, Unless

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
Jenny McCarthy

Give, Autism, Safe

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.
Jenny McCarthy

Children, Parents, Rather

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?
Katherine Heigl

Life, Marriage, Family

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.
Marc Andreessen

Time, Morning, Real

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.
John Cusack

Time, Good, Art

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Jack Lynch

Often, Style, Grammar

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
Ice T

Life, Change, Try

'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
Jason Reitman

Reality, Writing, Remember

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
Bob Woodward

Food, Smart, Fight

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
Jesse Jackson

Fear, Today, Here

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
Edward Norton

Character, Ends, Relate

The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.
Cat Cora

Good, Home, Different

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.
Beth Ditto

Cool, Fashion, Kids

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.
Jennifer Granholm

Change, Made, Old

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