Driven Quotes - Page 7

• I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Kids, Who I Am, Giving

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• I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.

  Frank Lampard

  Player, Want, Determined

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• Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

  Annie Lennox

  Taken, Artist, Years

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• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Country, Parent, Custodians

  "In the name of the father". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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• 'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

  Eric Liu

  Christian, Purpose, Voters

  "Mad Libs" by Eric Liu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2005.

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• To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.

  Samuel Lover

  Heart, Years, Long

  Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.363

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• I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.

  Holly Madison

  Children, Age, Dolls

  "Interview: Oregon's own reality star Holly Madison talks about 'Dancing'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. March 20, 2009.

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• The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Powerful, Media, Dynamics

  Twitter post from Jan 04, 2016

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• There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, People, Support

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• Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

  Bruno Mars

  Special, Emotion, Capture

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• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Dream, Character, Stuff

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• I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

  Kevin McCloud

  Issues, Political

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• Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.

  Phil McGraw

  Children, School, Media

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

  Helen Mirren

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.

  Demi Moore

  Want Something, Passionate, Relentless

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• I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

  Steven Morrissey

  Moving, Thinking, Today

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• Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.'s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street remains something of a throwback to that era, as demonstrated by the recent phone-hacking scandal - which led to the demise of yet another century-old paper, the 'News of the World.'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Phones, Stories, Demise

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• I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

  Liam Neeson

  Plot, Information, Computer

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• I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Fun, Thinking, Years

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• The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

  Bill O'Reilly

  Father, Party, Government

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• To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, People, Political

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• It's important to be driven and have goals. You want an independent woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. It's attractive to me when a woman is doing what she loves. It makes me want to know more.

  Apolo Ohno

  Independent, Goal, Important

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• I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.

  Apolo Ohno

  Character, Games, Personality

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• This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.

  Yoko Ono

  Frustration, Reality, Men

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• If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

  Larry Page

  Growth, Our Society, Problem

  "20 Things I’ve Learned From Larry Page" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2015.

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