Compulsion Quotes
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Alfred Hitchcock
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I wasn`t driven to acting by an inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
Paul Newman
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I`m not really an exhibitionist. I`m drawn to the outrageous stuff because it`s fun, not because it`s some deep compulsion. I`m no tortured, anger-stoked, deeply neurotic comic. Just a pretty low-key normal guy. A, "Hey, the glass is half-full", kind of a...
Will Ferrell
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All I know is that I have to act. It`s a compulsion. I`m driven to it. I wouldn`t say that I would die if it were taken away from me, but a large part of me would shrivel up.
Patrick Stewart
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Acting? It`s a longstanding compulsion I`ve had since I was about five or six years old. I can literally identify the moment it struck me. I went to see a play [If I Were a Princess] in which a babysitter of mine [Betsy True, who later acted on Broadway] ...
Edward Norton
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This is exactly the point we were trying to make. What`s the rush? Just give her a chance. Medical science is not that certain. We would hope the whole process will slow down, and everyone will step back and end the compulsion to end her life.
John Egan
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The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
John Dos Passos
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The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the accept...
Alfonso Nunziante
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That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover• our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion• or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in an...
Andy Law
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Often for young men of Strom Thurmond`s class, their first sexual encounter was with a black domestic. This is not very uncommon at all. .... They abused that power. It might not be rape in the physical sense, but there had to have been some element of co...
Asher Maoz
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
Alexander Nikonov
Source: brainyquote.com
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I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn`t write or read horror or fantasy, other than children`s fantasy, until I was in my teens.
Allison Gilman
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How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
Al Gonzales
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
Allan Wade
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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
Betty Friedan
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Adina Rosenbaum
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
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I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
Adriane Berg
Source: quotationspage.com
