Driven Quotes - Page 32

• In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

  Terry Eagleton

  Responsibility, Media, Life Is

  "Leveson inquiry: the frontiers of privacy" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2011.

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• The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

  John Welch

  Leadership, Smart, Numbers

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• As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

  Katarina Witt

  Sports, Passion, Athlete

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• The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

  Tom Hanks

  Mean, Years, Desire

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts' Larry Crowne: A family affair". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

  Billy Gibbons

  Song, Process, High Road

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• Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

  David Frum

  Views, People, Tone

  "Despite setbacks, Frum beats on" by Daniel Libit, www.politico.com. September 01, 2009.

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• I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

  Alastair Campbell

  Believe, Very Deep, I Believe

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• I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

  Alastair Campbell

  Hate, Losing, Ruthless

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• I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Believe, Heart, Europe

  "José Manuel Barroso: "How is Britain so open to the world, but so closed to Europe?"". Interview with David Miliband, www.newstatesman.com. July 11, 2012.

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• The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.

  Clint Black

  Hate, Years, People

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• I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

  David Baldacci

  Writing, Vivid Imagination, World

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• You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.

  Evan Bayh

  Running, Home, Years

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• Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

  Linwood Barclay

  Character, Plot, Fiction

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• To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Writing, Play

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• I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

  Bill Ayers

  Ideas, Structure, Young

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• Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

  Patrick Carney

  Crazy, Journey, People

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• The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven.

  Pete Cashmore

  Challenges, Bed, Lines

  ""Pete Cashmore Started A Blog Because It Was Something He Could Do From Bed" by Teri Evans". www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2011.

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• I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Stars, Television, Tvs

  IGN FilmForce Interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2005.

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• So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

  Lee Child

  Jobs, Real, Book

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• Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Character, Men, Two

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks 'Party Down' Movie, Going Bridal at Sundance in Two Wedding Comedies (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

  Sofia Coppola

  Design, Acting

  Interview with Ella Taylor, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003.

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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  Vince Cable

  Skills, Long, Growth

  "Full text: Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference" by Vincent Cable, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

  Vivian Campbell

  Cutting, Technology, Doe

  "DEF LEPPARD Guitarist: Music Piracy Is Not A Bad Thing For Bands Like Us". Interview with Dana Feldman, www.blabbermouth.net. June 30, 201.

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• I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!

  Tim DeKay

  Character, Thinking, Usa

  "EXCLUSIVE: Tim DeKay Talks White Collar Season 3 and Episode 3.12". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Fighting, Army, America

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