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The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and… — Youth Lagoon
If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay.… — Chris Martin
By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the… — Muhammad Asad
The easiest way to buy silver was to take a paper dollar to the bank and ask for change. So much coinage was disappearing from… — Michael Maloney
Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the conditions that brought… — Jack Kornfield
Usually the hard stuff you’re forced to do makes you learn a lot. — Lauren Barnholdt
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when… — Marianne Williamson
Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have… — George Bernard Shaw
Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once… — P.J. O'Rourke
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell… — Andy Rooney
Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical… — Deborah Feldman
An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country. — Bill Vaughan
Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor. — Karl Marx
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced… — Anatole France
All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who… — Indira Gandhi
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims… — George Steiner
People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions. — Lizz Winstead
It's very hard, I think, for critics to write positive reviews, because there's not that much to say about something you like. You can kind… — Mitchell Hurwitz
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. — Sigmund Freud
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. — Barney Frank
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects.… — Benjamin Franklin
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials. — Diane von Furstenberg
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with… — Giuseppe Garibaldi
You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a… — Henry Louis Gates
What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend… — Boy George

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