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• The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

  Alan Hansen

  Congratulations, Rewards, Intense

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• I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

  Anne Hathaway

  Being Yourself, Struggle, Thinking

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

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• A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Careers, Perfect, Wells

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

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• I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Reality, People

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• I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

  Michelangelo

  Paint, Under Pressure, Patron

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• I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Government, Asking The Right Questions

  "My Final Word on BuzzFeed and Emad Burnat’s Detention at LAX" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• If you're in a diabetic or prediabetic state, it's good to have medication to go on for a period of time. But simply by making the changes - get your sleep, 35 grams of fiber and a half-hour walk - your cholesterol will come down, your sugar will come down, and your blood pressure will come down. Only the minority of people can't control it.

  Michael Moore

  Sleep, Blood, People

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• I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Self, Passionate, Disturbed

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• When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Jobs, White, House

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• I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.

  Liam Neeson

  Daughter, Mother, Son

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• Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Iran, Community

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• Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?

  Apolo Ohno

  Dream, Winter, Helping Others

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• When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.

  Apolo Ohno

  Gun, Levels, Competing

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.

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• My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.

  Bobby Orr

  Dad, My Dad, Supporter

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• I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

  Joel Osteen

  Dad, Trying, Mold

  "Pastor Joel Osteen: An Everyday Message, Magnified". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. April 28, 2012.

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• It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

  Theodore Parker

  Business, Taken, Men

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.85

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• I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

  Sara Paxton

  Teenager, Thinking, Peer Pressure

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• I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.

  Ron Perlman

  Character, Blood, Transition

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

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• I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, Too Much, Comedy

  "Michelle Pfeiffer: 'I never had a big game plan'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2009.

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• I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Jeans, Dresses, Uniforms

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• Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Daughter, Mother, Redneck

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• A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

  Richard Pryor

  Home, Night, Ideas

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• In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

  Carroll Quigley

  Government, Way, Bankers

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub

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• I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Jobs, Real, Mean

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• For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Mean, People, Devotion To God

  "More Questions with Queen Rania". Q&A, content.time.com. May 11, 2007.

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