Compelled Quotes - Page 18

• I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I am compelled to tell many of these stories and have ended up being a broadcaster after originally going to drama school and working in fashion for a bit.

  Gemma Cairney

  Fashion, Drama, School

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• We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Hands, Risk

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

  Peter L. Berger

  Individual, Institutions, Procedures

  Peter L. Berger (1973). “Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective”, Overlook Pr

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• In all my work, I try to tell great stories that people want to go to the movie theater to watch, or want to turn on, and are compelled to watch it, over and over and over again, and will make a mark when they grow up.

  Jon M. Chu

  Growing Up, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that I'm compelled to go back to them over and over until I learn more and more about them, without even quite thinking it's material for a book.

  Michael Lewis

  Book, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I like to just follow what I find compelling. In order for me to be compelling, I have to be compelled. I don't try to think about what people are interested in seeing, I have to be interested. For me, that works the best.

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, Order, People

  Source: variety.com

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• It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Issues, Empowering

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• Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen of our country are compelled to lead temperate lives, otherwise their credit is gone.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, Struggle, Men

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• I haven't felt compelled to go back in the studio and do anything serious. I have a little sort of home studio thing which I potter about in occasionally.

  David Gilmour

  Home, Potters, Littles

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

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• When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Ordinary World, Albums, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself. The same is true of literature, but nobody feels compelled to toss Philip Roth a grammy just to prove it.

  David Bennun

  Art, Literature, Toss

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In the spiritual life we can do nothing worthy without repentance, but the Lord has much mercy on us because of our intentions. He who compels himself and holds on to repentance until the end, even if he sins is saved because he compelled himself, for the Lord promised this in the Gospel.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to say in the same style that I said it in those other books. I felt compelled to preach.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Book, Style, Tears

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• I was shamed.My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for a long time now. Well, I don't believe in God either, but every day in school I'm forced to say prayers, and I feel like a hypocrite. Why should I be compelled to betray my beliefs?" I couldn't answer him.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, Atheist, Prayer

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• I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do - the actual act of writing - turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, People, Giving

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.26, Anchor

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• Research states that we have a two-week window to act after being inspired by an experience, before the brain is compelled to move on. I have always thought that while some documentaries I have seen have educated me, they have failed to engage and drive me to act in support of the message.

  Sam Branson

  Moving, Two, Support

  "Breaking the Taboo" by Sam Branson, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.

  Jen Lilley

  Goal, Vacuums, Unfulfillment

  "Count Your Blessings and Watch them Multiply" by Jen Lilley, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Identity, Feels, Built

  Twitter post from Dec 08, 2014

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• I'm not a doctor, nor am I a member of the military. What I am is an appreciative, concerned American citizen, who was horrified when I heard about the horrendous rates of suicide (22 per day) and PTSD/TBI within our military. As such, I felt compelled to reach out to anyone who cared to listen, to try to help with this terrible situation. This is not just life and death - it is life and death for those who defend our freedom.

  Ken Wahl

  Suicide, Military, Doctors

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• In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.

  Sarah Silverman

  People, Comedian, Sticks

  "Sarah Silverman walks the blurry lines of sarcasm". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.montereyherald.com. March 29, 2011.

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• There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any.

  Roger Williams

  Prayer, Sea, Practice

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

  Harper Lee

  Reading, Thinking, Two

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Submit, Constraints, Obedient

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• From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism--that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction.

  Hal Rothman

  Government, Railroads, Tourism

  Hal Rothman (2010). “The Making of Modern Nevada”, p.1, University of Nevada Press

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• In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again.

  Philip French

  Life, Death, Suicide

  "Feathered frenzy" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2005.

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