Compelling Quotes - Page 13

• You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters.

  Mark McGrath

  Character, Long, Chemistry

  Source: collider.com

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• From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Smart, Hippie, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation is not as compelling to watch.

  John Lloyd Young

  Watches, Imitation, Evoke

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.

  Nachman of Breslov

  World, Power Of Love, Transformed

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• The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to flying saucer cults. That said, it can also be a powerful folly amplifier.

  Paul Saffo

  Powerful, Flying, Use

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• The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

  Ted Kooser

  Beautiful, Ordinary World, Way

  Ted Kooser (2007). “The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets”, p.8, U of Nebraska Press

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• Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

  James Cook

  Thinking, Government, People

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• When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Two, Results

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.203

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• We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Men, Self

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.199, Beacon Press

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• But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.

  Michael Foley

  Issues, Compelling Reason, Strategy

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• I truly believe that Yahoo! is one of the most compelling and dominant companies in the world.

  Ross Levinsohn

  Believe, World, Company

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• People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.

  Alexandra Cassavetes

  Ideas, People, Temptation

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• We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling.

  Charles Roven

  Growing Up, Character, Years

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Law, Self, Lines

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• As you put your sights on your goals — no matter how great and compelling they are — as you look into the distance, don’t forget what is right in front of you today. No matter how great your dreams, no matter how great your destiny, the biggest thing you can do in any day is a small act of kindness.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Kindness, Distance

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• To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.

  William Beebe

  Writing, Wind, Wings

  William Beebe (1954). “A Naturalist's Life of New York”

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• It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

  Mark McKinnon

  Powerful, Vision, Tears

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• I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made me feel that the world around me is a much fuller, much more wonderful, much more awesome place than I ever realized it was. That has been, for me, the wonder of science. That's why science fiction retains its compelling fascination for people. That's why the move of science fiction into biology is so intriguing. I think that science has got a wonderful story to tell.

  Simon Jenkins

  Moving, Book, Thinking

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• Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Political, Understanding, Events

  Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (2013). “Fascism versus Capitalism”, p.144, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators. The speculative urge that lies within most of us is strong; the prospect of a free lunch can be compelling, especially when others have already seemingly partaken. It can be hard to concentrate on potential losses while others are greedily reaching for gains and your broker is on the phone offering shares in the latest "hot" initial public offering. Yet the avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.

  Seth Klarman

  Strong, Lying, Loss

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• Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.

  Fairfax M. Cone

  Running, Jobs, Business

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• Well, I think “likability” is an overused word. I don’t watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they’re compelling. Sympathetic is a little different... Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows.

  Louis C. K.

  Character, Thinking, Tv Shows

  "Louis C.K. on the Importance of Acting Like an Asshole". Interview with Steve Marsh, www.vulture.com. June 29, 2010.

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• I believe we're all aware that there are people and organizations throughout the world who are bent on destroying America, everything we stand for and inflicting harm on American citizens. It is the obligation of the president of the United States to respond to those. I believe, I must add, that this adminstration for the last seven months has neglected compelling national security threats besides this ... I hope that the president will not confine his activities to just this.

  John McCain

  Believe, Seven Months, Organization

  "A Quick Look At Reactions In Congress". www.cnn.com. August 20, 1998.

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• The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

  Dennis Prager

  Numbers, Design, Enough Time

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• Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

  Moby

  Broken, Shells, Kind

  Source: thequietus.com

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