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• I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique.

  Bartlett Sher

  Unique, Thinking, Special

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• It's flabbergasting. I can understand if you have your legs spread and you're pushing yourself into the camera - that's sexually erotic. But the sensual contours in the male or female shape? Come on, guys, relax.

  Helena Christensen

  Guy, Erotic, Sensual

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• I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.

  Larry Page

  Jobs, People, Ceo

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• The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Doors, Blood

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Way, Threshold

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Discovery, Data, Deep Understanding

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “Syntactic Structures”, p.5, Walter de Gruyter

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• Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, College, Class

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.

  John Zerzan

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  "'We don't know what's going to happen. If we say we're doomed, we are, full stop.' A Q&A with John Zerzan and Zander Sherman". logger.believermag.com. December 4, 2015.

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• I'm really blessed with the people in my life who keep me on track and keep pushing me forward.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Blessed, People, Track

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always ready and willing to just keep pushing and working and going because it's in my spirit.

  Aldis Hodge

  Spirit, Ready, Willing

  Source: collider.com

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• No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

  John Steinbeck

  Way, Ability, Knows

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• Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

  Jim Wallis

  Rivers, People, Calling

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• Sometimes I try to beat other people's achievements but on many occasions I find it's better to beat my own achievements. That can give me more satisfaction. I don't feel happy if I am comfortable. Something inside me pushes me when I get comfortable. It makes me go farther and I want to keep pushing.

  Ayrton Senna

  People, Giving, Achievement

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• [Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice and friendly and forthcoming. And then we're completely disillusioned. We have all these grand plans. One of them is the Rolling Thunder Pussy Revue. There's all these women's festivals going on this summer, and we don't think they're as adventurous as they could be. Lilith Fair-right away, by the name, you know they aren't pushing the envelope hard enough.

  Ani DiFranco

  Summer, Nice, Thinking

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• The only way you find what your limits are is by pushing them.

  Terri Irwin

  Way, Limits

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• It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

  Henry Rollins

  Teenage, Stupid, School

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• The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

  Henry Rollins

  Father, Kids, Men

  "What is Punk?" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• A lot of people that make films say, 'We need this kind of character. Who's done it before? Get them to do it again.' That is exactly what actors are pushing against. It's kind of a cliche to talk about being stereotyped in that way, but it happens.

  John C. Reilly

  Character, People, Needs

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• Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

  Harold Wilson

  Men, Design, Ruthlessness

  Harold Wilson (1971). “A personal record: the Labour Government, 1964-1970”

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• We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Opposites, Statistics, Facts

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• [Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.

  Philippe Halsman

  Character, Voice, Silence

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• I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Childhood, Parent, Feelings

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• I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.

  John F. Kerry

  Senior, Looks, Medicare

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• If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.

  Clint Eastwood

  Cowboy, San Francisco, Careers

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I've always been a closet jock. With exercising, the more you do it, the more you get into it. And the more you see results, the more you're pushing for the next level.

  Michelle Obama

  Exercise, Next Level, Levels

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