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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.
Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change.
Luckily, my creative juices are pretty much on tap. If I'm compelled to do something, I can go for it and get it done.
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore.
Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.
Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.
When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action.
I have been compelled to dig deep inside and pull out strengths I never knew I possessed in order to protect my family.
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.
I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.
'The Living And The Dead' is one of those scripts that you read and are instantly compelled and engaged by. It's intelligent, chilling, and engrossing.
During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.
I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.
By life's very nature we are compelled to find and maintain balance, or be subject to the symptoms of the lack thereof.
There is nothing that I'm more compelled to do than get up in front of a crowd and make people laugh.
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
Growing up, I was so compelled by artists whose looks were inseparable from their music. Bjork was my hero.
My objects dream and wear new costumes,
compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands
and the sea that bangs in my throat.
We all have challenging family relationships, and trying to balance that between our dreams and what we feel compelled to do is, I think, a challenge that's easily relatable.
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.
You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.
Illinois is home to a disproportionate share of Dreamers and would suffer a significant economic blow should they be compelled to leave.
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.
I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.
If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.
We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.
I know what it's like to be genuinely intrigued and compelled by a story and to have a sense that there's an adventure to be had and a film to be conjured.
The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.
While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.
When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she's gonna pay for it!
I think that crying is a way women and men express frustration, anger, or passion. And we should not feel compelled to mute those emotions.
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.
If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.
I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass.
