Pushed Quotes
719 Pushed quotes by 596 unique authors
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I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.
— David Blaine
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I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me…
— Hussein Chalayan
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I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind.
— Daniel Sharman
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We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and…
— Johan Rockstrom
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Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks…
— Heather Brooke
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You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it. So I just wanted to show the point of view of an…
— Simon Rex
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Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues…
— Q'orianka Kilcher
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive…
— Saina Nehwal
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My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out…
— Dick Van Dyke
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My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.
— Unknown Author
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I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then…
— Juliette Binoche
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I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
— M.I.A.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd.…
— M.I.A.
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I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I…
— Janet Jackson
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My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
— Wendi Deng Murdoch
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My mom pushed me to take drama class.
— Michael Steger
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I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess…
— Mario Testino
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There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.
— Jillian Mayer
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I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world…
— Matthew James Thomas
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I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself.
— Helene D. Gayle
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I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule…
— Terry Crews
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Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats…
— Edi Rama
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I was not pushed into the business by anything other than my own ambition and my own dream of wanting to act.
— Unknown Author
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I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.
— Andy Daly
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Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or…
— Elliott Abrams
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