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• The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Art, People, World

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• For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Athlete, Want, Knows

  "Olympic Games 2012: loneliness of the long-distance Paula Radcliffe". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2012.

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• As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Soccer, Stars, Player

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Perfection, Cooks, Trade

  "Interview with Gordon Ramsay About Masterchef". Interview with Brett Moore, www.thespruce.com. November 17, 2016.

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• I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

  Dan Rather

  Political, Caves, Literature

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• Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

  Robert Redford

  Confused, Mean, Independent

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• A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

  Jimmy Reid

  Race, Self, Silence

  "The People Speak: Democracy is not a Spectator Sport". Book by Colin Firth (p. 226), September 13, 2012.

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• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  Sally Ride

  Loss, Suits, Way

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• If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

  Joe Rogan

  Relationship, Girlfriend, Crazy

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• By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

  Kevin Rudd

  Home, School, Cities

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

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• Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  White, House, Lasts

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Sanity, Intense

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• It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Home, Careers

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• Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

  Adam Sandler

  Girlfriend, Night, Thinking

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• I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

  Susan Sarandon

  Thinking, Talking, Feelings

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. November 1, 2004.

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• And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Exercise, Numbers, Political

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• Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own.

  Howard Schultz

  People, Support, Want

  "Starbucks boss: we're not all froth". Interview with Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2009.

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• Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

  Howard Schultz

  Thoughtful, People, Today

  "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discusses turnaround". Interview with Melissa Allison, www.seattletimes.com. March 12, 2011.

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• I think it's just a lot more pressure to make the scenes work when you're doing a film, because when you're doing a series you feel like, I have so many scenes, so many episodes, so if I don't get it exactly right this time, I have another scene later. You feel less pressure.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Thinking, Film, Scene

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

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• We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

  Donna Shalala

  Teacher, School, Differences

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

  Tom Shales

  Mean, Excess, Television

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• Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

  Simon Sinek

  Coffee, Space, Tables

  "Blinded By Their Own Product: Starbucks Is Losing Its Buzz" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.

  Hope Solo

  Sports, Fun, Hate

  "Soccer Star Hope Solo On Loving Lost Parents". Interview with Cheryl Corley, www.wdiy.org. August 20, 2012.

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• As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Play, Competition, Stronger

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• As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Years, Tape, Bears

  "All Police Interrogations Should Be Tape-Recorded". Article by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. October 08, 2012.

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