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719 Pushed quotes by 596 unique authors
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People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity.…
— Orison Swett Marden
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We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the…
— Helen Thomas
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And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage…
— Joan Rivers
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Father, One day, a woman walked into my life. I hurt her deeply with the harshest words possible. I pushed her away as much as…
— Ma-Roo
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I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.
— Jean Kwok
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It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.
— Cynthia Lewis
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The early commitments, early recruiting, that had changed. The whole clock is pushed ahead and you have to make decisions earlier about who to and…
— Kirk Ferentz
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The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It…
— J F C Fuller
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There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this…
— E E Cummings
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You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even…
— Andre Agassi
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First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport…
— Andre Agassi
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When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, so…
— Stanislaw Lem
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No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days…
— Marcel Proust
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Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous…
— Ward Churchill
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There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses -…
— Salman Rushdie
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Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players…
— Pat Riley
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I like being moved. I don't like being pushed.
— John Cage
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I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
— Harvey Pekar
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At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
— Marshall McLuhan
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I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.
— Lee Harvey Oswald
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Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.
— Unknown Author
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My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.
— Bart Starr
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Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
— Vanessa Mae
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I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I loved Bird's playing…
— Jackie McLean
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