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“We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.”

Made Lost Progress Sea Despair Pushing Pulling Gave Up

Author:John Lewis

“I'm a big fan of rehearsal. I'm famous for pulling the cast together, not so much to formally rehearse, but just to run the lines. My theory of acting is that it takes all your attention just to stay in the moment, and keep your attention on the other person, and get him to do what you want him to do.”

Want Persons Moments Bigs Running Together Lines Acting Attention Fans Theory Casts What You Want Pulling Rehearsal Want Him

Author:William H. Macy

“Probably "Mrs. Potato Head" or "Training Wheels". "Mrs. Potato Head" because it was the hardest song to write and it took me a while to finish it and feel good about the lyrical content. But I've had that idea in my head for so long, especially the visuals - pulling apart a Mrs. Potato face and how that doubled as a meaning for plastic surgery. "Training Wheels" because it's the only love song on the album.”

Feels Writing Long Ideas Faces Song Training Albums Hardest Feel Good Wheels Visuals Plastic Pulling Surgery Potatoes Only Love Lyrical Plastic Surgery Training Wheels

Author:Melanie Martinez

“I actually think this whole Brexit thing in the U.K. was a welcome example of being straightforward. With the candidates pulling out quickly, there's no stringing the people along.”

People Thinking Whole Example Welcome Candidates Pulling Straightforward Being Straightforward

Author:Trevor Noah

“I think it's important to not have some sort of one-size-fits-all program in Washington, which has downsides, like killing entry-level jobs. But pulling people into the workforce...”

People Thinking Important Jobs Levels Fit Program Killing Size Pulling Entry Workforce One Size Fits All

Author:Paul Ryan

“To pull at a rope at which others happen to be pulling is not a shared or conjoint activity, unless the pulling is done with knowledge that others are pulling and for the sake of either helping or hindering what they are doing.”

Done Helping Happens Activity Sake Pulling Rope

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Yoga is living as awareness itself - with nothing pulling or pushing you.”

Awareness Yoga Pushing Pulling

Author:Angel Grant

“I relished the sweet sense of keeping a unique secret in my mind - a wonderful magical universe that I could go to any time, any place, and no one had to know. It was my personal place, better than any I've read about in any other book. And when I wrote, I was in the process of pulling that personal universe out of nothing and into the cold reality of the greater world.”

Knows World Mind Book Reality Universe Process Secret Greater Wonderful Sweet Cold Unique Pulling

Author:Vera Nazarian

“The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.”

“Fitzcarraldo is a mad dreamer. He's willing to sacrifice everything in order to make his vision of an opera house. That metaphor of pulling the boat over the mountain is so integral to anyone making any creative effort. It's that universal Sisyphean struggle.”

Order House Effort Vision Struggle Creative Sacrifice Willing Mountain Universal Mad Metaphor Boat Dreamer Opera Pulling Opera House

Author:Sam Pressman

“There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting too rough with their animals - they need to learn how to pet the dog properly, they can't be pulling its ears and things like that.”

Way Needs Different Kids Three Animal Dog Ears Different Ways Pet Rough Pulling Autistic

Author:Temple Grandin

“I am critical of the fact that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pulling out of everything - the joint approach to the refugee issue, for example. He cannot disparage his colleagues in the EU either - that's not how we treat each other. We require solidarity: in refugee policies, just as in the financial architecture of the structural funds from which countries like Hungary have strongly profited from for years.”

“If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.”

Ifs Knows Heart Serving Pulling

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“What's interesting about my project recently is that I'm going out into broader global spaces but then isolating at the same time - sort of pushing out but then pulling in.”

Space Interesting Projects Pushing Going Out Pulling

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I know Daniel Murphy is a really good hitter. He's definitely pulling the ball right now for power, although he did go left-central the other night against the Dodgers, I believe.”

Knows Believe Night Left I Believe Right Now Balls Pulling Murphy Dodgers

Author:Joe Maddon

“If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's not working. But we would show up, we would talk about it.”

People Ifs Trying Mean Shows Figures Directors Pulling

Author:Ti West

“While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling the trigger in combat. So sometimes you just absorb all this stuff without realizing you were doing research.”

People Thinking Book Sometimes Stuff Realizing Military Research Killing Obstacles Combat Pulling Triggers Pulling The Trigger

Author:Charlie Brooker

“I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's interesting calling it "beat music". That's quite true, the rhythm is up to the fore, it's got a slap bass, and it's got "funk" in the title. But I think there's always a level of irony when we did those kind of things.”

Thinking Way Kind Different Interesting Levels Calling Beats Rhythm Titles Irony Different Ways Tension Pulling Bass Slap Funk

Author:Stephen Mallinder

“I spent a year pulling all-nighters and driving around in a really tiny fuel-efficient car relying on the kindness of strangers and seeing this incredible range of landscapes throughout the United States. That's what happened with The Honesty Room. It was a huge night and day switch.”

Years States Night United Rooms Kindness United States Seeing Happened Car Honesty Huge Incredibles Stranger Tiny Driving Landscape Range Fuel Efficient Pulling All Nighters

Author:Dar Williams

“Most of the spiritual traditions were very theistic and the idea of an external god pulling the strings didn't resonate with me. I then discovered Buddhism and found the perfect path. I felt so grateful to the Buddha for having given the path, and not just explaining the end result, but showing so clearly how to get there.”

Ideas Ends Spiritual Found Given Felt Perfect Results Path Buddhism Tradition Grateful Strings Pulling Explaining End Results So Grateful

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I`d like to curl up in a ball like Hillary [Clinton]said she would but she is out. And I think we all have to go do that. The fact of the matter is we don`t have the luxury of pulling back from this.”

Thinking Said Matter Facts Balls Clinton Luxury Pulling Curls

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“People think there's a single solution to complex problems, and the solution is often making an enemy of a group of people - pulling back and rejecting the other.”

People Thinking Problem Enemy Groups Solutions Complexes Pulling Rejecting Complex Problems

Author:Duncan Green

“Iran has proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq. You can push back against Iran without pulling out of the deal.”

Deals Iraq Iran Pulling Syria Proxy Yemen

Author:Peter R. Mansoor

“I just want to continue to be challenged and to keep getting better and better. I don't ever want to lose that or become complacent or pulling tricks.”

Want Loses Tricks Get Better Pulling Complacent

Author:Elaine Cassidy

“You're your kid's partner, not the person who's pulling all the strings.”

Persons Kids Partners Strings Pulling

Author:Ross W. Greene

“People don't scream or swear or pout or sulk when there's compatibility. But most growth occurs when there's incompatibility. When it comes to resilience, when it comes to pulling yourself up when you've fallen down, you don't learn those things when things are going well. You learn those things when you're struggling.”

People Wells Growth Struggle Resilience Fallen Scream Swear Pulling Compatibility Incompatibility

Author:Ross W. Greene

“To me, smoking pot meant sitting with a newspaper on my legs, rolling the seeds down, pulling the twigs out and finally producing a perfectly cylindrical, absolutely wonderful joint that you either locked at both ends or pinched off, or pinched at one end and left open at the other.”

Ends Left Wonderful Sitting Legs Seeds Newspapers Smoking Pot Locked Rolling Pulling Joints Twigs Smoking Pot

Author:George Carlin

“I think [Donald Trump] does understand that. We talked a great deal about the separation on power and the constitution. And we`re very excited about what he`s doing because what he`s doing is pulling back what we see as unconstitutional executive actions from the past presidents.”

Thinking Doe Action Past President Deals Trump Constitution Excited Separation Executives Pulling Unconstitutional

Author:Paul Ryan

“Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.”

Ifs Firsts Different Hands Lines Compassion Steps Fire Arms Behavior Gun Complicated Betrayal Drawing Biology First Steps Pulling Suicidal Triggers Of Context Different Meanings

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“The rubber hits the road if Trump somehow turns his sights on Canada, as he has with Mexico, Australia and Germany, and takes some gratuitous comments on Canada's laxity on security or that Canada is not pulling its weight and has to do more in NATO, and so on. At that point, the pressure is on Trudeau politically, both from the media in Canada, from the opposition, maybe from his own party members, to shoot back.”

Ifs Turns Party Security Media Trump Members Weight Sight Pressure Germany Canada Opposition Australia Comment Mexico Pulling Nato Rubber

Author:Michael Kergin

“I wouldn't like to say that I'm absolutely God conscious. It's like everybody else. We're battling with the forces that are pulling us upwards and downwards at the same time. But basically we all want love, that's what I feel.”

Want Feels Force Conscious Pulling

Author:George Harrison

“I think that the world that was behind us has gone ahead. We need to run a lot to match that level. So we do not need to calculate. We just need to give it all in. And I have given myself in completely. I've been successful is pulling my entire government in. I believe that India is also committed to moving forward.”

Thinking World Needs Giving Believe Government Running Moving Given I Believe Levels Behinds Gone Successful India Committed Moving Forward Pulling

Author:Narendra Modi

“In terms of President Trump, I really do hope that he does accomplish some of the things he said on the campaign trail. If he is willing to make investments in infrastructure, but not on the backs of the middle class and the working class, and put people back to work, that would be a good thing. If he's serious about making Obamacare better, and not pulling the rug out from 20 million Americans who benefit from it, that would be a good thing too.”

“People are very sophisticated consumers of information, and they're pulling all different things.”

People Different Information Consumers Different Things Sophisticated Pulling

Author:Jon Stewart

“I know it feels like two steps forward and one step back, but we are making progress. In my lifetime, I have lived through one World War, I have lived through the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the pulling down of the Berlin Wall. I have experienced what I never thought I would have experienced, which is a pretty workable peace in Northern Ireland, and I experienced a unified Europe - until the Conservative government got its hands on the idea that in order to appease a few back-benchers they would hold a referendum, what a disastrous idea.”

“I had $20 million in the bank, girls are following me all over the f - place, people call my name everywhere I go. What would I change? And then one day you get onstage and you see two little girls who look like they are 11 years old sticking their tongues out and pulling their bras down and you quit touring. That's what happened to me.”

People Years Looks Littles Two Girl Names Millions Happened One Day Down And Following Tongue Quitting Pulling Touring Bras

Author:Rick James

“I think essentially if you look at British public debate around the issues of our interconnectedness with the global economy you do not find a ready audience, of any large scale, for pulling up the shutters.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Audience Economy Issues Ready British Debate Scales Pulling Global Economy Interconnectedness Large Scale Shutters

Author:George Osborne

“I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or is an element in some of my books, and that's probably a direct result of where I've grown up. But other than that I don't draw particularly on the Australian landscape or the Australian biology and so on. So I don't think there's anything you could point to and say is particularly Australian.”

Thinking Kind Book Stories Results Elements Draws Direct Legs Landscape Biology Sense Of Humor Pulling Australian Laconic

Author:Garth Nix

“The rewriting is always crucial to what I do; whenever I do a scene, I always tell myself that this isn't final and that I can do it again, better. The pacing is probably from experience. I've always liked gradual disclosure. I keep thinking of my rubber-band theory. You have a rubber band that you keep pulling and pulling and pulling, and just at the moment of snapping you release it and start another chapter and start pulling again.”

Thinking I Can Moments Can Do Theory Scene Band Finals Release Crucial Chapters Pulling I Can Do It Rubber Disclosure Rewriting Pacing Snapping Rubber Bands

Author:Robert Cormier

“Europe is being subjected to the kinds of programs that devastated Latin America for many years. Latin America has thrown them out and is pulling out: It's successful; it's democratizing; it's economically developing; and it's free from the shrapnel of US imperialism for 25 years. Meanwhile, Western Europe is destroying itself systematically, destroying itself going in the opposite direction.”

Years Kind America Successful Europe Program Opposites Western Developing Thrown Latin Destroying Pulling Imperialism Latin America Devastated Western Europe

Author:Noam Chomsky

“What happens is that you discover you're carrying so much weight that 90 percent of what you thought yesterday you are thinking about today and will think about again tomorrow. Your mind doesn't change because you are carrying too large a load. So the mind is caught. It's seized by its own structures. It can't consider different ways of thinking or doing or being or relating. It's all you can do with your psychic energy to keep pulling yourself along with this huge bag that you are dragging behind you.”

“My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.”

Dream Guy Sweet Dinner Farmers Pulling Potatoes Bohemian Bohemia Sweet Potatoes

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.”

Thinking Knows Artist Girl Language Deals Skills Gun Threat Things To Do Do You Know Pulling Girl Thing Language Skills

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.”

Individual Percent Campaigns Corporations Contribution Strings Usual Pulling Brake Campaign Contributions

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights - I'm sorry, I'm pulling you right off the street, and we're giving you clothes that you're going to be O.K. in.”

People Ifs Giving Government Certain President Rights Streets Clothes Picks Sorry Civil Rights Clothings Pulling I'm Sorry Vans

Author:Denis Leary

“So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.”

People Giving Reason Pulling Wrong Reasons

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.”

People Ifs Knows May Artist Process Chance Impossible Industry Connections Lifetime Opening Fascinating Consistently Pulling Curtains Affording

Author:Nigel Lythgoe

“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”

“And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.”

People Knows Purpose Process Records Produce Periods Who I Am Pulling

Author:Alanis Morissette

“In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

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