Pressure Quotes - Page 8

• I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we can persuade some shareholders that they don't want to be involved in this enterprise.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Fuel, Want

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• I never did well meeting strangers, so my favorite part of partying as a couple was that I didn't need to strike up conversation from scratch. If you've ever had to go out and meet new people on your own, you would understand. It can be a bit of an awkward situation. If you're already out at a party with someone you know, it takes that pressure off.

  Andrew W.K.

  Couple, Party, People

  "Andrew W.K. And MAKJ On Partying As A Couple". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong.

  Duncan Green

  Decision, Makers, Decision Makers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When we do work in places like China and Vietnam, research tends to be really effective as a way of getting change, whereas in more open places, mobilization and the creation of public pressure through the media often seem to be the things we try.

  Duncan Green

  Media, Trying, Vietnam

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Some players when they become No. 1 they put too much pressure on themselves.

  Martina Navratilova

  Player, Too Much

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• The psychological peer pressure that the left has employed - and deployed, actually - on young people has been overwhelmingly successful. It has created droves and droves of people that vote against what they know is right, vote against their own self-interest, in exchange for feeling good about themselves and also being immune from criticism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Successful, Self, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated in times of crisis ... What we have now is a public mindset of us versus them, and an overall anti-immigrant climate that is both troubling and morally reprehensible.

  Andrew Lam

  Times Of Crisis, Climate, Blame

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

  Ai Weiwei

  Government, Spheres, Internet

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We need to put pressure on Trump, to speak out very forcefully that he's the president of all Americans including Muslims, and that his administration, including his law enforcement, is going to take very, very seriously any crimes against any Americas based on their race or their faith, including Muslims. He needs to send that signal very, very soon and very, very clearly. Otherwise, he's going to be seen as culpable. And his silence may be interpreted as encouragement, rightly or wrongly.

  Van Jones

  Encouragement, Speaks Out, Law

  "Van Jones: 'Hope for the Best, Expect and Prepare for the Worst'". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. November 14, 2016.

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• After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that enabled black people to go forward. It was not the initiative internally that the Negro put forth in America, nor was it a change of moral heart on the part of Uncle Sam it was world pressure.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Heart, America

  Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

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• It's such a hard and scary position to be in...G-Dragon hyung is under so much pressure and there's a lot of hard work involved.

  Seungri

  Hard Work, Dragons, Scary

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• It was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology. And so it was against that backdrop that the early space flights took off.

  John Glenn

  War, Technology, Space Flight

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It certainly helps, I think, with some actors to understand the process of acting. You see what extraordinary pressure they're under, there's a huge circus dedicated to a particular moment and they're got to deliver and it can help that you, even if empathetically alone, understand what they're doing.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.heyuguys.com

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• [Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But of course it meant that here I was playing this new character for the first time, in a place where he had been a relative failure, as all these people had been murdered and the pressure was on. Rather than starting optimistically with his pipe in front of the fireplace, he was in quite a difficult place.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Nice, Character, People

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• It's very simple ; once the Western countries stop supporting those terrorists and making pressure on their puppet countries and client states like Saudi Arabia and Turkey and others, you'll have no problem in Syria. It will be solved easily.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Simple, Turkeys

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure.

  Barack Obama

  Isil, Coalitions, Terrorist

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.

  George Michael

  People, Singing, Tables

  Source: www.gminfopage.com

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• We thought that the odds of things working OK were up in the upper 90 percent or we wouldn't have gone. But the - there were some problems cropped up on the flight but was able to take care of those OK and - although they were things that we hadn't really trained that much for. But it was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology.

  John Glenn

  War, Technology, Odds

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is a big pressure if the writing is not hilarious.

  Eric McCormack

  Jobs, Writing, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If under the pressure of Washington Donald Trump starts dissembling and saying things that aren't true, he'll decay as much as Obama did well on that.

  Newt Gingrich

  Decay, Trump, Wells

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Stars, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any of those things except with the added definition of intensified formal pressure.

  Robert Hass

  Long, Fiction And Nonfiction, Definitions

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself.

  Melanie Brown

  Labels, Records, Bigs

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I'm not putting pressure on myself, all I know is I want to do music.

  Melanie Brown

  Want, Knows

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I would like to see a law legalising women's shelters in Iraq. I would like to see our radio being opened again as a result of the pressure that we're putting on the governmental body that could allow this.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Law, Iraq, Body

  "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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