Pushing Quotes - Page 6

• I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

  Eli Broad

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Ideas, Challenging The Status Quo

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• Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

  Tim Burton

  Real, Actors, Textbooks

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.

  David Cameron

  Japan, Europe, Want

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• And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Hate, Leader

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• I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

  Richard Carmona

  Issues, Ideas, Return

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• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  Adam Clayton

  Loyalty, Jobs, Work

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

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• I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

  George Clooney

  Real, Want, Limits

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• Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.

  Louis C. K.

  Trying, Envelopes, Edges

  "Louis C.K. on Twitter and Tracy Morgan". Interview with Austin L. Ray, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2011.

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.

  Will Ferrell

  Looks, Boundaries

  "Will Ferrell interview". film.list.co.uk. November 6, 2009.

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• In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

  Mary Garden

  Skills, Australia, Flying

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• In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Crazy, Athlete, Winning

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• I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.

  Selena Gomez

  Stressed, Want, Ends

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• Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Regret, Past

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• We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. If there is a real project that aims to resolve the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, under full Palestinian sovereignty, we will support it.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Dream, Real, Independent

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• The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  People, Community, Bosnia

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• I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

  Jesse Jackson

  Letting Go, Fighting, Thinking

  "Jesse Jackson on Obama 'Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. August 08, 2011.

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• Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

  Erica Jong

  Teaching, Feminism, Pleasure

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• If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

  Paul Keating

  Business, Humility, Pride

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

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• Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Giving, Hip Hop

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

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• Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

  Adam Lambert

  Men, Years, Female

  "Adam Lambert Says Censorship of American Music Awards Song Would Be 'Discrimination'" by Daniel Kreps, www.rollingstone.com. November 23, 2009.

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• Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.

  James Lankford

  Crush, Insane, Liberty

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• I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Daughter, Mother, Kids

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• You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.

  Moby

  Couple, People, Sound

  "With Destroyed, Moby Makes Sense of Shattered Musical Landscape". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  Viggo Mortensen

  America, Spain, Culture

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