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• I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.

  Ice Cube

  Cutting, Blood, Trying

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• The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Goal, Trying, Way

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• I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?

  Louis C. K.

  Feelings, Cracks, Enabling

  "Louis C.K. on eating pressure and providing an alternative to The Man". Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. July 5, 2012.

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• If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.

  Eric Davis

  Feelings, Ifs

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

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• I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

  Cat Deeley

  Pieces, Weight, Able

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• Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

  Morris Dees

  Caring, People, Abuse

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• It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

  Matt Dillon

  Actors, Sensitive, Young

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• We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Views, Oppression, Force

  "Shirin 'Ebadi - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate". Interview to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, www.memri.org. October 24, 2003.

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• I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Fun, Character, Thinking

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• I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

  Will Ferrell

  Unique, Thinking, Snl

  "In New Drama, Will Ferrell Is Going for Broke". Interview by Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Dirty, Hypocrite

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• A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

  Virginia Foxx

  Believe, Attention, May

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• School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

  James Franco

  Taken, School, Acting

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• I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.

  Morgan Freeman

  Roles, Born, Feels

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

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• We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

  Sigmund Freud

  Believe, Civilization, Cost

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1963). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Talking, House

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• I obviously don't feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don't judge people who choose to have it, but I don't want to erase who I am.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Who I Am, People, Judging

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• It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Winning, Brain

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• The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

  Al Gore

  Editors, Support, Troops

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• The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Comedian, Given, Being Funny

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• When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.

  Temple Grandin

  Blood, Autism, Drug

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

  William Hague

  People, Needs, Sides

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. April 24, 2011.

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• A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

  Lee Haney

  Cancer, Heart, Holiday

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• With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.

  Lee Haney

  Cheer, Cancer, Heart

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• Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Islamic, Government, Support

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