Pressure Quotes
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The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.
Tones and I
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Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.
Paul Pierce
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I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out a chapter.
Zadie Smith
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Baseball does have some slack here. When they were losing $20 million a year in Montreal, there was some pressure to get rid of it. But as long as they are profitable in Washington, there is less pressure. They've got eight bona fide $450 million offers to buy the team, and those offers aren't going to go away soon.
Andrew Zimbalist
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Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.
Baker Brownell
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I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having to be "political" or whatever. I'm just making what I wanna make.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats.
Roger Caras
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In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
Carroll Quigley
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I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.
Allen Iverson
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I reckon there's always a bit of pressure. We put it on ourselves, I think we always feel a bit of pressure because people around us and our manager and stuff call us perfectionists, which I find very hard to take because nothing that we do is perfect.
Chris Chaney Jane's Addiction
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It’s a buzz every time you perform under pressure.
Ian Baker-Finch
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Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.
Evan Peters
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I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.
Alicia Keys
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And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
Imran Khan
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There is increasing scope for the dollar to come under pressure. Once again, we see structural issues starting to work against the dollar.
Ian Stannard
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Every day, there's that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there's still that mountain to climb. So it's not like one day is harder or one scene is harder. They are all equally challenging.
Abdellatif Kechiche
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I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.
Salman Rushdie
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But now, we don't have that pressure, and we don't have to stay out on the road for six months.
Eric Carmen
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To me it's like starting all over, ... If you've watched any of the games I've played at the point guard position, it's honestly hard for other teams to stop it, because I'm putting pressure on guys. We don't always have to come down and rely on getting points off a set offense. We get a chance to run up and down the court and get a lot of easy baskets.
Allen Iverson
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We have to maintain the pressure. I can tell you one thing -- Iran has not enjoyed the last two resolutions we tabled.
Pierre Pettigrew
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The absence of real pressures from within Iraqi society, from Iran, from the world at large, or even from his own party leaves those of us who would write about the “cause” of this war with nothing to evaluate “objectively” and argue about.
Kanan Makiya
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You get in that pressure situation where you feel like you have to win at home.
Phil Jackson
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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
Oscar Wilde
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There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
Nicholas Sparks