Pushing Quotes - Page 23

• I feel cool about making music and I feel secure pushing boundaries in my music. But things like videos and photos I find really difficult. I don't really like being in front of a camera - even though it is my job and I must act like I do.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Jobs, Cameras, Video

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Writing, Fiction

  "Humor has to surprise us, otherwise it isn't funny". Interview with George Plimpton, blankonblank.org. November 28, 1994.

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• People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.

  Gong Li

  People, Attention, Sidelines

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• Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

  Frank Horvat

  Photography, Art, Buttons

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• ... to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Men, Practice, Kgb

  The Right Word (1996).

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• If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

  Noam Chomsky

  Downtown, Agendas, Four

  "Who Runs America?". Interview with Adrian Zupp, chomsky.info. April 1-8, 1999.

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• It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

  Dr. Dre

  Buttons, Records, Matter

  "Exclusive: Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Talk Beats Music". Interview with Isaac Guzmán, entertainment.time.com. January 17, 2014.

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• I dream of making India a $20 trillion economy. For that, I am pushing for agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Agriculture, India

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• The funny thing is a lot of people assume that my parents are the ones pushing me to make music. The truth is that I'm the one dragging them along on this crazy ride. They'd much rather have a normal life, but it doesn't look like that's in the cards.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Crazy, Funny Things, People

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• I think that if you believe in regime change, you're mistaken. In 2013, we put 600 tons of weapons - us, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar - into the war against [Bashar] Assad. By pushing Assad back, we did create a safe space.

  Rand Paul

  War, Believe, Thinking

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  People, Attention, Draws

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I've never been about trying to promote a brand of Squarepusher. I've never been keen on that idea that these are the character traits that I've got to stick with and amplify and keep pushing forward and pushing on the public. I'm really happy to throw it all away and start each record with a blank slate but I concede you've got a point, there are things I can't get rid of, no matter how hard I try.

  Squarepusher

  Character, Ideas, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There is no excuse for a billion dollar industry to have somebody who's pushing papers on an administrative level - which is still very important in terms of getting projects done - it's imbalanced and completely illogical and example of how badly this art form has been rapped... for them niggas to have health care benefits but for themselves to share in no part to that? It's very telling about the climate of the music industry.

  Immortal Technique

  Art, Important, Climate

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.

  Edward Zigler

  Winning, Games, Play

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• Everything I give, pretty much, is public. Not every donor wants to - or is willing to get the kind of abuse and attacks that we do, or death threats, so they're not willing to have their names out. I think the other side is pushing for that because they want to intimidate people so they won't oppose it.

  Charles Koch

  Thinking, Names, People

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Men, Training

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.187, VM eBooks

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• What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to be logical? It is, of course, none of the above. It is the ability to play. Computers cannot have fun. They cannot fantasize. They cannot dream, they cannot experience emotion or summon intuition. These rare, precious qualities come naturally to every child on this earth yet they tend to be seen, by well meaning adults, as faults, foibles and failings. In pushing tiny toddlers to 'perform', we rob them of the ability to imagine.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Dream, Children, Fun

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• When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

  Hillary Scott

  Song, Different, Push Yourself

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• If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Real, Writing, Night

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• If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable when you dance, you're not pushing yourself hard enough. 100 % is not enough. You have to give 200%. One tendu takes years of hard work and will never be perfect. Everything in ballet is a challenge.

  George Balanchine

  Hard Work, Years, Giving

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• Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer's travel season. This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country.

  Thomas Friedman

  Summer, Country, Cutting

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• The corporations don't like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret.

  Ralph Nader

  Winning, Law, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I guess I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of the cello without giving up on the idea of playing the cello, if that makes any sense. I have no real interest in putting the cello through different effects to make it sound like a guitar or other instruments.

  Okkyung Lee

  Giving Up, Real, Guitar

  Source: thequietus.com

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• As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Writing, Challenges

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.199, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There's real beauty in pushing yourself to expose the real you in more ways.

  Kevin Systrom

  Real, Way, Push Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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