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“Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.”

Men Sex Driven One Man

Book:The Tunnel of Love: A Novel

Source: The Tunnel of Love: A Novel

“The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves, driven by the people and which the parties picked up favourably.”

People Thinking Important Born Party Opinion Possibility Citizens Important Things Affection Driven Presidential Public Opinion Polls Opinion Polls Candidacy

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.”

World Heart May Body Moving Universe Force Elements Shadow Direct Universal Driven Gravity Reverse Fragments Subtlety Nature Love Convergence

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.”

“I'm a pretty driven person, and I've accepted that about myself. For a long time, I was like, 'I'm a very laid-back person, I grew up in the country,' but I'm also very driven, otherwise I wouldn't be where I am right now.”

Persons Long Country Grew Right Now Grew Up Long Time Driven Accepted Laid Back

Author:Miranda Kerr

“Society is secretly driven by sales”

Author:Peter Thiel

“The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.”

World Reason Levels Effort Fields Importance Fundamentals Driven Underestimate Systematic

Author:Peter Thiel

“Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.”

Source: The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer

“Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11.”

“Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In our teaching we have so exalted the virtues of data-driven decision making that in many ways we condemn managers only to be able to take action after the data is clear and the game is over. In many ways a good theory is more accurate than data. It allows you to see into the future more clearly.”

“Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they were being exterminated and driven off their land, Whites were collecting assets.”

Black Land Driven Campaigns Native Assets Native American Collecting Hawks Illinois

Author:Ishmael Reed

“To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.”

Want Law Levels Clear Driven Locals Department Curriculum

Author:Arne Duncan

“As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.”

Knows Reason Know How Century Concerned Performances Critics Driven Historian 20th Century Integrating

Author:Roselee Goldberg

“To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice this and agree to play and invent - the only way to not succumb to the complacency and market-driven schlock of the present tense is to continually interrogate it from the inside out.”

People Way Play Form Honest Concerned Exciting Agree Driven Being Honest Tense Complacency Present Tense

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.”

People Long Ideas Term Planets Capitalism Profit Driven Long Term Consideration

Author:Al Gore

“I try not to cover Sudan from afar. I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks different. When you're outside Sudan it's easy to lose sight of how much of what happens is driven by local politics. And when you're in America in particular, there's this sense that what D.C. has to say is the only thing that counts. Unsurprisingly people in Sudan don't feel the same way.”

People Way Feels Writing Trying Looks Different Happens America Easy Loses Particular Sight Driven Locals Uncomfortable Afar Sudan

Author:Rebecca Hamilton

“It's very rare that you get a group of people who are all passionate and driven and all get along.”

People Groups Passionate Driven

Author:Kelly Blatz

“My characters' addictions are what makes them a bit stylized or "grotesque" - not just in appearance but through what drives them. Addiction is what threatens stability and normalcy and yet it seems very much a part of being human - at least we are all a bit obsessive and compulsive. Aren't all humans driven by mad desires for one thing or another?”

Humans Character Seems Desire Bits One Thing Mad Addiction Appearance Driven Stability Being Human Obsessive Grotesque Normalcy

Author:Porochista Khakpour

“A lot of my friends do creative things and are doing really well at what they do - some writers, some artists. I'm in a driven circle. I've had a lot of opportunities that other people wouldn't necessarily have and seen some cool places.”

People Wells Artist Opportunity Creative My Friends Driven Circles Cool Places

Author:Charli XCX

“I've never had a quarterback run-driven offense. We don't run designed plays where we snap the ball directly to the quarterback and he's just running it. If the defense is cheating and overcompensating for your running back, then the quarterback needs to keep (it) honest.”

Ifs Needs Play Running Honest Balls Defense Driven Cheating Offense Snaps Quarterback Running Back Overcompensating

Author:Chip Kelly

“I think that's another misconception, [that] our quarterbacks run all the time. Quarterbacks can help you in the run game, they complement what you do, but it's a running back-driven run game.”

Thinking Helping Running Games Driven Misconception Quarterback Complement Running Back

Author:Chip Kelly

“[ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller aspect of the film and it's not all that complicated of a story and there's a simple elegance to it. I liked that. It is also driven by a really strong romance and ordinary men doing extraordinary things. I love that.”

“I think the addiction stuff, because I was already sort of outed in my family as a sexual person: as a sexually-adventurous and sexually-conflicted person and sexually-driven person. They already knew that about me. They knew that about me when I was eleven. My parents very consciously tried to provide an environment that would protect me from becoming a drug addict.”

Thinking Persons Stuff Parent Environment Becoming Drug Protect My Family Addiction Driven Addict Eleven Adventurous Sexually Drug Addict

Author:Melissa Febos

“My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.”

Different Parent Growing Up Growing Style Dad My Dad Driven Mum Different Styles Motown

Author:Ella Henderson

“I was aware of what animals go through because I had driven animals to slaughter and I'd killed animals. And I was aware that there were certain ethical issues, but they weren't preying on my mind very heavily.”

Mind Certain Animal Issues Driven Ethical Slaughter Ethical Issues

Author:Neal Barnard

“We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.”

World Art Reason Might Culture Grows Share Driven Dependent Farmers Art And Culture

Author:Amartya Sen

“I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.”

Ideas Character Stories Driven Plot

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“I just feel like everyone (including myself) on the planet is a little confused; we are all so driven by consumption - shopping, eating, getting high, whatever - anything to not "feel" what is really going on.”

Feels Littles Planets Eating Including Driven Confused Shopping Consumption Getting High

Author:Princess Superstar

“In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.”

People Ifs Thinking States Enough Law Happened Students Succeed Achievement Standards Tough Tests Driven Ideology Gaps Old People Framework Achievement Gap

Author:Diane Ravitch

“I'm a girl, so every day I have a different opinion about or a different feeling about something that inspires me, but I think the thing that's driven me is I'll take a look at successful people and just try and see what their path was and follow that with my own twist, obviously. I guess I'm inspired by other people who are successful.”

People Thinking Trying Looks Different Feelings Girl My Own Opinion Path Successful Inspire Inspired Driven Successful People Twists Different Opinions Different Feelings

Author:April Rose

“I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off.”

Want Character Driven Thrones Epic Kicking Storyline Atlantis

Author:Geoff Johns

“No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.”

Running Life Is Company Driven

Author:Steve Ballmer

“There's no doubt that Boko Haram has been driven from many of its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria. Now, President Muhammadu Buhari says technically, we have won the war. Those in the know say but technically, the army is still losing the battle because Boko Haram has changed tactics. Instead of now holding territory as it used to and calling this territory its own, now it is resorting to guerrilla tactics, hit-and-run raids and especially suicide bombings.”

“I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.”

Thinking Half Century Driven Amazed 20th Century Warhol

Author:Bob Colacello

“All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.”

Writing Self Parent Levels Shining Driven Monsters Lurking Discrepancies Discrepancies Between Deviousness

Author:Francine du Plessix Gray

“There is a lot of fiscal conservatives in the United States senate that didn't vote for that because we understand that national security spending is not the reason why we have a debt. Our debt is being driven by the way Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and, by the way, the interest on the debt is structured in the years to come.”

Way Years States Reason Social Interest United United States Security Vote Debt Spending Driven Reason Why Senate National Security Social Security Medicare Medicaid Medicare And Medicaid

Author:Marco Rubio

“I'm always working on lots of songs at once. For me it's very emotionally driven.”

Song Driven Always Working

Author:Kate Brown

“You're living in a matrix that's driven by social media. It's become glorified. You're suppose to be what you portray on social media, thats the perception.”

Social Media Perception Social Media Driven

Author:Aeriel Miranda

“All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition, is that on initial inspection, it seems fundamentally impossible.”

Real Seems Leader Impossible Ambition Driven Initials Criteria Inspection

Author:Kevin Allen

“Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.”

People World Spirit Sports Creative Successful Hunger Driven Achiever

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.”

Ifs Kind Would Be Song Behinds Rocks Driven Bunch Rock And Roll Momentum Lyrical Destroyers Moody

Author:Dan Bejar

“I think very often when we think we are aiming at the best for our children, what we are really doing is trying to position them for competitive success in an intensely driven kind of society. I'm not sure that always leads to the good life or to happiness.”

Thinking Trying Kind Children Position Our Children Driven Not Sure Good Life

Author:Michael Sandel

“There is no way to avoid the reality that the American government in the past years has been the most spectacularly hypocrisy-driven government in the world. We rival the Soviet Union in some stages, in some ways, in hypocrisy.”

World Way Years Has Beens Reality Government Past Stage Unions Driven Hypocrisy Soviet Soviet Union Rivals American Government

Author:Michael Scheuer

“I'd like to play live, but the thing I do now with my synthesizers, almost everything is vocoder-driven.”

Play Driven Synthesizers

Author:Kyle Parker

“I think I was annoyed going through the '90s just as a guy who loves music. There wasn't a lot of music for me. Everything was groove driven. We lost the plot with the melody. There's no more melody.”

Thinking Guy Lost Driven Plot Melody Annoyed Music Love Groove

Author:Michael Buble

“There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.”

Feels Should Privilege Driven

Author:Greg Saunier

“When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics.”

Kind Form Practice Focus Students Projects Driven Visuals Exploration Formal Shocking Aesthetics Discouraging

Author:Jimenez Lai

“I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.”

Economic Television Grew Grew Up Models Driven Advertising Economic Models

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.”

Kind Today Artist Next Industry Pops Driven Nurturing Pop Music Music Industry

Author:Paul Weller

“I have to do what I'm doing at the time. That's the most important thing. You might lose some people along the way, and you might gain other people on the way, that's just the way it is. But nevertheless, if you're driven by something, there is no argument about it; that's what you have to do.”

People Ifs Way Important Might Loses Gains Argument Important Things Driven Nevertheless

Author:Paul Weller