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One way I judge music is whether it compels me to listen to it.
Robert Christgau /
Music Me Way
Judge
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Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Honesty
Socialist
Compels
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It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
Sonia Sotomayor / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Cases
Heart
Law
Compels
Conclusions
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But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.
Pierre Laval / French Politician
Germany
Policy
Practise
Compels
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Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
Todd Solondz / Screenwriter
Paper
Pens
Compels
Pen
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
Hal Boyle / Journalist
Habit
Lectures
Professors
Compels
Deliver
Discuss
Lecture
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Alain Badiou / Philosopher
Being True
Evil
Moments
Be True
Compels
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato / Philosopher
Science
Astronomy
Philosophical
Soul
Another
Compels
Look
Leads
Upwards
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Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.
Maureen O'hara / Film Actress
Certain
Standing Out
Stars
Star
Compels
Notice
Stands
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I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.
The Edge / Musician
Curiosity
Music Me New
Music Me Curiosity
Compels
Fresh
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Margaret Mead / Cultural Anthropologist
Baby
Humility
Soulmate
Struggle
Began
Compels
Struggles
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We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
Michelangelo Antonioni / Film Director
Concepts
Goes On
Knows
Mean
Compels
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Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
Charles Stanley / Pastor
Wisdom
Godly
Holy
Holy Spirit
Spirit
Naturally
Doing
Compels
Earthly
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The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
Jean Piaget / Psychologist
Argument
Certain
Coherence
Invention
Narrative
Practice
Compels
Lead
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Plato / Philosopher
Astronomy
Clear
Draws
Events
Soul
Compels
Upwards
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No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
Linus Pauling / Chemist
Conclusion
Evidence
Good Health
Minimum
Optimum
Vitamins
Health Good Good Health
Compels
Intake
Required
Sustains
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Climbing is more of an art than a sport. It's the aesthetics of a mountain that compels me. The line of a route, the style of ascent. It is creative.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Aesthetic
Ascent
Climbing
Creative
Mountain
Art Me Style
Compels
Sport
Line
Route
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Don't pursue something because you 'want to be great.' Pursue something because it fascinates you, because the pursuit itself engages and compels you.
Justine Musk / Author
Pursue
Great Something Want
Itself
Compels
Fascinates
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What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.
Bob Taft / Politician
Faith
Focus
Our Lives
September
September 11
Compels
Matters
Family Faith Freedom
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I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.
Ira Sachs / Filmmaker
Deceit
Not Interested
Always Me Way
Compels
Me Way Always
Invested
So Many Years
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It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'
Johann Most / Politician
Men
Hunger
Order
Poor
Poor Man
Property
Submit
Compels
Sell
Hour
Lash
Voluntarily
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
Charles Caleb Colton / Writer
Add
Cease
Justice
Writing
Admit
Compels
Readers
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What compels the Hindu right's volcanic reaction to Valentine's Day? Some of its members have protested that the holiday is the product of a 'rotten imported culture' from the West.
Elizabeth Flock /
Valentine
Valentine's Day
Holiday
Rotten
Hindu
Compels
Imported
Reaction
Volcanic
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You can tell the depth of a person based on the quality of the questions they ask. We can measure the depth of humanity by a similar method. Space compels us to ask deeper questions.
Dylan Taylor /
Deeper
Depth
Method
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Measure
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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
Elihu Root / Former U.s. Senator
Citizens
Considerate
Constitutional Government
Electorate
Exercise
Growth
Judgment
Practice
Successful
Compels
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A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.
Raghuram Rajan / Adviser
Running
Firm
Monopoly
Scenery
Run
Compels
Fast
Forward
Ground
Incentive
Move Forward
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I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common heart.
Sue Monk Kidd / Writer
Common
Greater
Impulse
Misguided
Pursuit
Separation
Inside
Compels
Preserving
Search
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Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.
Hale Irwin / Golfer
Running
Deer
Giving
Guy
Best Mind Me
Shot
Compels
Drives
Heavens
Stick
Right Mind
Tackle
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
Lactantius / Author
Incapable
Perfect
Suffering
Titles
Compels
Necessity
Obey
Subject
Therefore
Title
Whom
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HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom.
Ted Olson / Former United States Solicitor General
Deny
Legitimacy
Persons
Transgender
Compels
Directly
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
F. Sionil José / Writer
Draws
Habit
Homesickness
Nostalgia
Whim
Compels
Flame
Induced
Seek
Moth
Pilgrims
Visit
Worshipped
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin / Author
Courage
Inspirational
Love
Relationship
Strength
Women
Deeper
Doubt
Enormous
Innocent
Instinct
Naive
Toughness
Does
Woman
Choose
Compels
Demands
Makes
Treat
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My sadness compels me to hide it so that people won't judge me. Seeking help would have blown my cover. Meanwhile, my mania convinces me that it's making me fun so I'll want to dive further into it. Seeking help would've ruined that good time.
Chris Gethard / Actor
Judge Me
Mania
Ruined
Sadness
Seeking
Time Good Me
Compels
Dive
Hide
Meanwhile
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No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It's the nature of the beast, and it's a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.
R. J. Cutler /
Beast
Compels
Lesson
Tunnel
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What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don't need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity.
Cornelia Parker / Sculptor
Aesthetic
Austerity
Compels
Houses
Most Important Thing
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As the daughter of a civil rights leader, I believe in the power that compels people to stand up for their freedoms, for justice and opportunity. I know that marching inspires people to take an active role in creating positive change for a better America.
Lucy Mcbath /
Civil Rights
Positive Change
Positive Change Power
Compels
Inspires
Marching
Stand Up
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We started our company out of a need to survive, but we've built it based on a mission not only to help others survive but to prosper. Because of that, our purpose - to empower people to live more beautiful lives - compels us to keep community at our core.
Richelieu Dennis /
Compels
Empower
Help Others
Mission
Prosper
Survive
To Survive
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No matter what political cause compels us, we should always feel as though it's being threatened. We should use these causes, whatever they are, to bring people together and get each other excited about our role, so we feel like we can't stop and won't stop.
Jack Schlossberg /
Causes
Threatened
Together Political People
Compels
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Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Music
Architecture
Action
Inspire
Judgment
Oratory
Painting
Please
Reason
Sculpture
Thrill
Rules
Being
Those
He
Compels
Controls
Master
Hear
Him
Orator
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I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.
Frank Gehry / Architect
Vacation
Architecture
House
Opera
Opera House
People
Sydney
Thinking
Money Great People
Compels
Spend
So Many People
Surrounded
Vacations
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When I see an image in my head that compels me, where there's this mystery about what's going to happen next or could happen next, I'll be intrigued. There are so many scripts that you read, and you know exactly what's going to happen, and there aren't too many where you can't tell within the first 20 pages where it's going.
Cary Fukunaga / Film Director
Intrigued
Mystery
Pages
Scripts
Me See Know
Compels
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We tend to have so many more close shots, which compels an artist to actually put in more effort than it is required otherwise. So, it is the expressions on the face, and how an actor presents his or her character, that really makes a scene. In such ways, Mollywood is a fabulous training ground for actors and actresses from other industries.
Mohanlal /
Artist
Effort
Fabulous
Scene
Training
Close
Compels
Expressions
Ground
Industries
Otherwise
Presents
Required
Tend
Training Ground
Ways
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