Pushing Quotes - Page 34

• I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.

  Shelley Long

  Crazy, Real, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

  Alexa Vega

  Kids, Parent, Needs

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

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• My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.

  John Barrasso

  Dad, School, Mean

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• I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

  David Blaine

  Believe, Feelings, Wonder

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

  James L. Barksdale

  Thinking, Giving, Choices

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• Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

  Mario Batali

  Smart, Mean, Wings

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• I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky.

  Mischa Barton

  Feelings, Week, Used

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• I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.

  Bill Condon

  Couple, Years, Two

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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  Dana Carvey

  Character, Matter, Limits

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.

  Nick Denton

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Search And Destroy" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. October 18, 2010.

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• You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

  Willem Dafoe

  Buttons, Roles, Stories

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• If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

  Chuck Eddy

  Thinking, Bother, Ifs

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• Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.

  Virginia Foxx

  Light, Effectiveness, Accountability

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• A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Directors, Actors, Littles

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

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• The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

  Sibel Edmonds

  People, Members, Has Beens

  "Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate". Interview with by Jim Hogue, baltimorechronicle.com. May 07, 2004.

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• The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

  Abel Ferrara

  Actors, Hard

  "Abel Ferrara On “go Go Tales”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. October 8.

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• I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Strong, Children, Cutting

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

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• Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

  Squarepusher

  Writing, One Direction, Wicked

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• A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.

  Susan Sontag

  Men, Doe, Body

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• When you touch me there, honey, makes my blood perspire, you got my body flaming like a California fire. Pulsing, pounding, pushing no longer in control, heatwave in my brain, smolder in my soul.

  Alice Cooper

  Fire, Blood, California

  Song: Working Up A Sweat, Album: Muscle of Love, 1973

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• Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.

  Janet Jackson

  Common Vision, Color, Together

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• What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

  Steven Johnson

  Inspiration, Ideas, People

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• I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

  Bill James

  Sports, Children, Athlete

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• I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

  Famke Janssen

  Trying, Buttons, Filmmaker

  "Famke Janssen on her directorial debut, the X-Men films, and Taken 2". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you're going to wind up where you started from.

  Cat Stevens

  Philosophy, Boys, Doors

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