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I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning… — Julia Sawalha
My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so… — Michael Weston
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at… — Tracie Thoms
I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class -… — Michael Angarano
The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of… — Joanne Woodward
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives… — Ishmael Beah
I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much… — Stone Gossard
Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself. — Christian Slater
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution,… — Ashwin Sanghi
Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a… — Isabel Allende
A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because… — Tracey Ullman
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing. — Madonna Ciccone
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting… — Glenn Greenwald
The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French. — Lou Doillon
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes… — Emmeline Pankhurst
My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither… — Chiang Kai-shek
I think I shall return to America even a better patriot than when I left it. A citizen of the United States, travelling on the… — William Cullen Bryant
Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more. — Keith Ellison
A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash. — Robert Kiyosaki
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced… — Rosemary Mahoney
I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical. — Unknown Author
Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be. — Simon Schama
As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. canned goods from the only… — Amy J. Berg
The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to… — Kim Young-ha

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