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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. — Thornton Wilder
I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make. — Natalie Wood
I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I… — Steven Wright
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself… — Steven Wright
Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going… — Ron Wyden
Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to… — Chris Hardwick
Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it. — Abdul Kalam
What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an… — Jeff Lindsay
No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you… — Hunter S. Thompson
She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he… — William Faulkner
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the… — James A. Baldwin
...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in… — John Kennedy Toole
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. — Jane Austen
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced… — Anthony Trollope
Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for… — Charles Baxter
Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced… — Paul Rudnick
Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for… — Margaret Atwood
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s… — Barack Obama
I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. — Henry David Thoreau
In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work,… — Madeleine L'Engle
But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force… — C.S. Lewis
I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I… — C.S. Lewis
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive… — Anne Lamott

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