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• The only time I feel pressured is when some woman's husband comes over and says, "Will you go ask my wife to dance? She's a great dancer and would just love to dance with you."Suddenly there's a crowd of people standing around us and they expect that they're about to see Fred and Ginger. Here the woman and I have just met, and these people think that it's showtime. That is the only time I think it is really embarrassing.

  Gene Kelly

  Husband, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.

  Jill Stein

  Rights, Court, Supreme

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities, including, for example, a major public works program to employ millions of people. The Democrats want that. The Republicans may be pressured from back home to want it, but it hasn't happened yet under the Obama administration.

  Ralph Nader

  Home, People, Expansion

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• The [Barack] Obama administration has pressured Mexico to keep them away from the Mexican border, so that they don't succeed in reaching the United States. Pretty much the same thing Europeans have done to Turks and Syrians.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mexican Border, United States, Borders

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

  Michael Connelly

  Believe, Book, Thinking

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• Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

  Richard Bach

  Funny, Beautiful, Wise

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• Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of the most important things to me, but at this point I can't see myself doing that professionally. Luckily, for the most part, I don't feel pressured.

  Riley Keough

  Thinking, Important, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Jennifer to Beth: Ech. I don't like Tom Cruise. Beth to Jennifer: Me neither. But I usually like Tom Cruise movies. Jennifer to Beth: Me too... Huh, maybe I do like Tom Cruise. But I hate feeling pressured to find him attractive. I don't. Beth to Jennifer: Nobody does. It's a lie perpetuated by the American media. Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts. Jennifer to Beth: Men don't like Julia Roberts? Beth to Jennifer: Nope. Her teeth scare them. Jennifer to Beth: Good to know.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hate, Lying, Men

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• Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Soul, Wish, Culture

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• The night we met-I'm not like that guy." His jaw was rigid. "I know tha-" He placed a finger over my lips, his expression softening. "So I don't want you to feel pressured. Or overpowered. But I do, absolutely, want to kiss you right now. Badly.

  Tammara Webber

  Kissing, Night, Expression

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• As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Coal, Pearls

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.504, Scholastic UK

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• I know you think I was pressured into binding myself with you before, but that's not true,I always intended to marry you, kitten.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Thinking, Kitten, Binding

  Jeaniene Frost (2009). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

  Rick Warren

  Prayer, Worry, Anxiety

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose of Christmas”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

  Alain de Botton

  Emotional, Luxury, Self

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.82, Vintage

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• The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Evil, Lines

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• I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

  Christy Turlington

  Marijuana, Smoking, Comfort

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• Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

  Ariel Sharon

  Running, Country, Israel

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• I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

  Adam Sandler

  Family, Fathers Day, Dad

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• Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

  Joyce Meyer

  Confused, Simple, Men

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• We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.

  Jared Diamond

  War, Musical, Majority

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• Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Clueless, Years

  "Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2)". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.

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• I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Cutting, Lucky

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

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• My family are very supportive and always have been. They weren't the kind of parents that pushed me into it. I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.

  Emily Browning

  Kids, Decision, Parent

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

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• I'm Straight Edge for me, so what everyone else is doing, it doesn't matter. I've never been pressured to drink or smoke or anything by any of the boys, and if anything, a lot of them like me because I'm always the designated driver. I'm the one who makes sure everyone gets home alright and I'm happy doing that.

  CM Punk

  Home, Boys, Wwe

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 1, 2006.

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• More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation

  Holly Hunter

  Real, Cameras, Tvs

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