Pressure Quotes - Page 9

• Mr. Assad is not going to be able to feel like there is a moderate opposition that actually threatens him. Currently, the Assad government looks out at the landscape, sees the rise of ISIS, sees that much of the rebel force has become largely Islamist, and then turns to the West and says, well, you know, they look toward the West and say, well, look, what you have is a terrorist group that's fighting against us. So in this context, I think, to talk about moderate opposition being created to put pressure on Damascus is rather illusionary.

  Vijay Prashad

  Fighting, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In April [1972], after that fine business in Dacca, Yahya Khan sent for me. He looked satisfied, sure of himself, by now convinced he had the situation in hand. He offered me a drink. "Well, you politicians are really finished," he said. Then he said that not only Mujib but I too was considered an agitator, I too was preaching against the unity of Pakistan. "I'm always under pressure to arrest you, Bhutto" I got so angry I lost all control.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Hands, Unity, Bhutto

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• When you have difficult issues on the table for discussion, then sometimes for Africa you may have Burundi or Gambia representing them on the Security Council; and then for Latin America you may have a country like Costa Rica, which is a wonderful country but they don't have the same weight as others from the other regions. And sometimes they get bullied. Sometimes their capitals come under lots of pressure to take a position.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Latin, America

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• My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off. It has the same sound and number of syllables as Zowie. And Joe stuck for most of his childhood. Now he has reverted to his real name, Duncan. Haywood was my father's name.

  David Bowie

  Father, Real, Son

  Source: us.hellomagazine.com

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• Great pressure was put on the editor, David Schneiderman, to not run the strip [of Jules Feiffer]. It was offensive. It was racist. And nobody apparently read the strip and saw what it was about. And I wrote a column about that.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Editors, Racist

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Strong, Cutting, Ties

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• There is less pressure on abandoning native communities: what for? There is nothing to be gained by it. On one hand, there are plenty tempting opportunities of experimenting with identities - being one kind of person today and a different the next day. On the other hand, there is little pressure to include the ethnic identity or religious identity into this mechanism, because now everybody is in a kind of Diaspora today.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Religious, Opportunity, Hands

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• One of the things I love about negotiations is that you have to be able to play it like an orchestra, different instruments for different circumstances. There's sweetness, and encouragement, and cajoling. There's pressure, there's drama, there's ultimatums.

  Susan Rice

  Encouragement, Drama, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Sometimes we put so much pressure on ourselves with any kind of job we have that we kind of forget that we do this because it's supposed to be fun because we love it.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Jobs, Fun, Kind

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• You get caught up sometimes in the deadlines and the pressures and certain things that you can't really control that you forget that this is supposed to be an enjoyable journey.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Journey, Forget, Sometimes

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.

  Vivek Shraya

  Fall, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.

  John F. Kerry

  America, Russia, Effort

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world.

  David Remnick

  Real, Russia, Ukraine

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

  David Remnick

  Jobs, Writing, Should

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: time.com

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• I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.

  Seamus Heaney

  Certain, Feels

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• I think really, if I were to defend the K-1 strikers, that it was a pressure of not enough time to re-prepare for a fight and not enough time to repair for a fight as a result of the last show.

  Shawn Tompkins

  Fighting, Thinking, Enough Time

  Source: fiveouncesofpain.com

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• One of the things you learn as president is, as powerful as this office is, you have limited bandwidth. And the time goes by really quickly and you're constantly making choices, and there are pressures on you from all different directions - pressures on your attention, not just pressures from different constituencies. And so you have to be pretty focused about where can you have the biggest, quickest impact.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Impact, Office

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.

  Susan Sontag

  Feminist, Important, Lucky

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner when it comes to stewardship of our rights.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Government, Political

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• In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.

  Sylvia Earle

  Past, Earth, Natural

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Persuasion, Consumers, Subjects

  Source: progressive.org

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• The White House, as Warren Harding said, and I think accurately, is an alchemist. We find out the strengths, the weaknesses and the smarts and the dumbs of whoever those occupants are under the pressure of the presidency.

  Mark Shields

  Smart, Thinking, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Quite frankly, I have to admit that with regard to the enormous financial assets and funds of Russian leaders in Western banks and on stock markets, the chances for the West to exert influence on Russia are quite low. I doubt that Western leaders are willing to exert pressure. I would not exclude an intervention in case of a crisis.

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Leader, Doubt

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• I've worked with a lot of people and I like to play with people when it's fun, and people that I have fun with independent of music, do you know what I mean? Where you can just joke and kid around, because you can joke and kid around with somebody and when you get in the pressure cooker of the studio then you can it's just something.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Fun, Kids, Independent

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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