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1402 Forced quotes by 1107 unique authors
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I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just…
— Douglas Booth
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The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they need to implement…
— Harry Browne
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We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because…
— Rupert Everett
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[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal these…
— Harry Browne
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Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only…
— Anthony Giddens
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Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
— Al Stewart
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Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much…
— Sara Blakely
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I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might…
— Seth Gabel
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media…
— Ma Jian
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It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
— Billy Joel
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In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.
— Frank Knight
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It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as…
— Mark Zandi
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I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please…
— John Hodgman
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No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the…
— Jandy Nelson
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
— Dick Cavett
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I forced myself to go visit Asia four times a year.
— Jeb Bush
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When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I know firsthand how alone you can feel when you’re being broken down in a relationship and forced to defend it or stay silent. Just…
— Debby Ryan
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If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!
— David Mermin
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As a result of the incident and subsequent media coverage, I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and…
— George Zimmerman
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Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this…
— Shirin Neshat
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There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and…
— John Kufuor
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I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and…
— Martha Wainwright
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I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.
— Joseph Jarman
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