56 Quotes About Compelled

  • Author Kathryn Harrison
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    Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

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  • Author Cal Ripken, Jr.
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    There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

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  • Author Mary James
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    They just keep thinking we'll go away, but once you start on this track, you kind of feel compelled to finish it. We just want a search for the truth.

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  • Author Rashid Khalikov
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    We have funds sufficient for the next couple of weeks but in order to continue this operation, we need funds immediately as all reserves are being used and if funds are not generated, we would be compelled to scale-down our activities.

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  • Author Glenn Miller
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    There's not enough data to suggest there's a problem with PAH in Lake Tahoe except with some of the marinas, ... We didn't see anything that compelled us to recommend management of boating at Tahoe solely because of PAH.

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  • Author James McGovern
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    I don't think any human being can listen to the testimony of the people who have fled, and see the savagery that is going on there and not feel compelled to do something.

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  • Author Jonas Mekas
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    It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.

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  • Author Kathleen Troia McFarland
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    Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very fiber. We feel compelled to do something.

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  • Author Marissa Moss
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    Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.

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