"If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel."
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"I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them."
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"There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong."
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"As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender."
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"Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it."
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"The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question."
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"When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do."
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"I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host."
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"The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution."
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"Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions."
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"There's pressure, but that's true no matter who you are or what you do."
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"There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness."
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"I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always."
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"There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide."
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"Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it."
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"In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record."
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"I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it)."
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"Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure."
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"As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure."
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"There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated."
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