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• Representatives of the American intelligence agencies - and I hope they won't be angry - but they could have been more professional, and the diplomats as well. After they found out that he was flying to us, and that he was flying as a transit passenger, there was pressure from all sides - from the Americans, from the Europeans - instead of just letting him go to a country where they could operate easily.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Gay, Agency

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• There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

  Chris Witty

  Expectations, Riding, Nothing To Lose

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• I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Holiday, Humor

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• I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

  Peter Cameron

  Awful, Charming, Obligation

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Waiting, Situation, Interaction

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• The tender pressure of his lips soothed her, like a warm drink in the dead of the winter, when every part of her felt so cold.

  Lauren Kate

  Winter, Lips, Cold

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.311, Delacorte Press

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• There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life, for example, there was never sufficient natural selection pressure to develop better eyes, individuals could earn other things like smiley smiles rather than waste energy & time on better eyes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Eye, Energy, Example

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• The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Past, Ideas

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• The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

  Maureen Johnson

  Cheating, Thinking, Done

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• What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies." "We're all going to want cookies if the world comes to an end," Mrs. Nesbitt agreed. "And chips and pretzels. If the world is coming to an end, why should I care about my blood pressure?" "Okay, we'll die fat," Mom said.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Mom, Blood, Cookies

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Vision

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• School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.

  Ellen Hopkins

  School, Joy, Too Much

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence—everything a little dust devil like me could want.

  Rick Riordan

  Self, Dust, Storm

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• If you’re not in Gryffindor, we’ll disinherit you,” said Ron, “but no pressure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Gryffindor, Said, Ifs

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• Blame it on Peer Pressure.

  John Marsden

  Peer Pressure, Peers, Blame

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls!

  Suzanne Collins

  Clever, Worry, Coal

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• Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today… and there are other pressures.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

  Doris Lessing

  Profound, Might, Form

  Doris May Lessing (1966). “Children of Violence”

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• Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

  Tim O'Brien

  Dream, Hurt, Writing

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

  Robert Englund

  Feet, Want, Enthusiasm

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.

  Emily Watson

  Thinking

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• What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Flower, Home, Animal

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• I don't think there could ever be more pressure to succeed than the pressure I place on myself.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Thinking, Succeed

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• The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Successful, Loss

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• I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers.

  Jules Verne

  Blow, Three, World

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