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'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.
Theo James / Actor
Conformity
Divergent
Fit
Humans
Category
Archetypes
Big Part
Exist
End Of The Day
Forcing
Multifaceted
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
D. H. Lawrence / Novelist
Humor
Men
Blind
Craving
Creating
Driving
Posture
Reasonable
Sense Of Humor
Sinister
God Man True
Forcing
Poets
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Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Bedroom
Heartless
Losing
Parliament
Possibility
Scottish
Cruel
Forcing
Homes
Measure
Rent
Spare
Step
Taxing
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Control freak politicians never rest, and a few of the more dedicated ones are working relentlessly to slap chains on the world's most unfettered market. The Marketplace Fairness Act will end up forcing consumers to pay higher prices for the goods they desire.
Kane / Professional Wrestler
Chains
Consumers
Control Freak
Dedicated
Fairness
Freak
Goods
Marketplace
Slap
World Will Rest
Relentlessly
Forcing
Prices
Unfettered
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When you're auditioning, hold on loosely. Work hard on it at home, like you always do. But when you're in the room, let a choice happen to you rather than forcing a choice that's not ready to come. You'll surprise yourself and, hopefully, the people in the room.
Carrie Preston / Film Actress
Surprise
Work Home Always
Auditioning
Forcing
Loosely
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I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.
Jack Garratt /
Honesty
Forcing
Instinctively
Organically
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We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed by rippling six packs and forcing an image down someone's throat trying to prove masculinity. Whereas I think true masculinity comes from having a strong sense of self.
Theo James / Actor
Movies
Masculinity
Packs
Prove
Self
Six
Strong
Throat
True
Often
Down
Forcing
Having
Image
Pushed
Sense
Spectacle
Strong Sense
Whereas
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When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies.
Chellie Pingree / United States Representative
Drug Companies
Maine
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Companies
Senate
Overcome
Forcing
Negotiate
Prescription
Proposed
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It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.
Bobby Jindal / Governor Of Louisiana
Home
Charter
Charter Schools
Children
Dollars
Online
School
Traditional
Time Education Home
Attain
Education Time Home
Forcing
Parochial
Public Schools
Schools
Update
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At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than coddle me, shelter me, or do things for me, he taught me to 'Make the Case' for everything in life - from my first job to a graduation trip I wanted.
Kimberly Guilfoyle / News Anchor
Graduation
Beloved
Leukemia
Shelter
Young Age
Life Age Dad
First Job
Forcing
Passed
Trip
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And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education.
Craig Benson /
Anything Else
Forcing
Product
Schools
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It's perfectly reasonable for someone to be hesitant to share their personal information with the government. The Census Bureau shouldn't be forcing anyone to share the route they take their kids to school or any information other than how many people live in their home.
Jeff Duncan /
Census
Hesitant
Personal Information
Reasonable
Bureau
Forcing
How Many People
Perfectly
Route
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The abolition of the double sanction for a foul in the box is a welcome change. There are times that you cannot help but stop your opponent in the box, with your momentum forcing you to make a challenge. Fouls can't be avoided in that situation but your intention was fair.
Philipp Lahm / Soccer Player
Abolition
Avoided
Foul
Intention
Momentum
Welcome
Double
Forcing
Opponent
Sanction
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The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people.
Dave Debronkart /
Burden
Choices
Valuable
Surge
Bear
Boomer
False
Forcing
Governments
Needless
Senseless
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SpongeBob's voice is really pingy and forward and nasally. The problem is, if you live in the extreme of that for more than 10 minutes, it can be a little grating, and it can be hard on your voice. Also, it gets in the way of the acting to be forcing your voice into this place.
Ethan Slater /
Extreme
Forcing
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
Patrick Ness / Author
Networking
Texting
Forcing
Trains
Sites
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Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.
Noreena Hertz /
Academia
Concepts
Golf
Golf Course
Hunting
Medicine
Recruit
Stewardship
Sustainability
Usual
Men Women Better
Appointment
Women Men Better
Forcing
Grounds
Likely
Ngos
Picked
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I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.
Jon Watts /
Big Screen
Movie Theater
Trapped
Love Experience Movies
Forcing
Shared
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A lot of people think that in your second year you might struggle because you're gonna try to do a lot more, and you can struggle because you might be forcing things. But as long as you play within yourself, I feel like you should grow as a player, and you should be getting better.
Andy Dalton / American Football Quarterback
Forcing
Getting Better
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If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation.
Joe Klein / Journalist
Barack
Cancellation
Heartbeat
Infamous
Medicaid
Nebraska
Negotiating
Secure
Vote
Obama
Agreed
Barack Obama
Senator
Forcing
Funds
Lincoln
Million
Press
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In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring 'Huckleberry Finn.' Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain - he had much wavier hair and a slightly thicker mustache. But when you deny an artist the chance to explore his art, you're forcing your beliefs on him.
Lisa Lampanelli / Stand-Up Comedian
Comedian
Deny
Huckleberry
Mustache
Beliefs
Comparing
Explore
Forcing
Huckleberry Finn
In The End
Par
Thicker
Twain
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One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.
Laura Schlessinger / Radio Host
Pie
Cares
Collapsing
Dads
Forcing
Moms
Peach
Raise
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Midlife is a time of explosive change, when our hormones rampage and our bodies alter, forcing us into a whole new chapter of life whether we want it or not. Everyone has a moment when they realise for sure that this so-called passage of time is changing them - and perhaps not in a good way.
Kate Garraway /
Good Way
Hormones
Life Time Change
Alter
Chapter
Life Change Time
Explosive
Forcing
Passage
Realise
So-Called
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The benefit of fast play is that you'll get players to commit their chips with relatively weak hands since it will be hard for them to believe that you have a strong hand every single time. The downside is that your opponents will raise weak when you have nothing at all, forcing you to fold.
Phil Hellmuth / Professional Poker Player
Chips
Commit
Opponents
Single
Weak
Time Believe Your
Benefit
Downside
Fast
Every Single Time
Fold
Forcing
Hand
Relatively
Raise
Single Time
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I always told myself I'd never be like my mother if I had a kid, but here I am, the same thing. I don't know how this happened. The same type of disciplining, the same kind of forcing him to perform in front of people, not buying him things when I could afford whatever he wanted - it's crazy!
Jo Koy / Stand-Up Comic
Buying
Type
Afford
Myself Mother Always
Perform
Forcing
Front
Same Thing
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I always thought that the fastest way for me to get ahead and get noticed and to do well was to make my act very accessible. When I first started, I talked about family stuff, my dog, my cat. It was all I knew back then; I wasn't forcing anything, but I wasn't like, 'Hey, don't you hate doing homework?'
Nick Swardson / Actor
Cat
Hate
Hey
Homework
Accessible
Family Me Way
Ahead
Fastest
Forcing
Noticed
Talked
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It's different every time you write. Sometimes it might be harder than it was the day before. I don't like forcing it, but sometimes, if you force it a little bit, it helps you to push forward, and you get inspired in a way. I've written songs in an hour. And there are songs that have taken me six months.
Phillip Phillips / Singer-Songwriter
Time Me Day
Forcing
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Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you'll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head.
Mel Robbins / Television Host
Body
Cells
Exploration
Grows
Growth
Hair
Nails
Needs
Soul
Uncomfortable
Your Body
Yourself
Entire
Entire Life
Forcing
Head
Outside
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I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow / Physicist
Circumstances
Graduate School
Happy People
Silver
Unhappy
Anything Else
Happiness Work People
Forcing
Graduate
Handed
Pattern
Platter
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The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of 1963. One achieved it by forcing all words out through the nostrils rather than the mouth. It was at once virile... and utterly affected. Nelson Rockefeller had a New York Honk.
Tom Wolfe / Author
New York
Affected
Fashionable
Males
Nelson
Spring
Words
Accent
Achieved
American
Male
Could
Forcing
Mouth
Namely
Rather
Rockefeller
Utterly
Virile
York
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There was originally no plan in place for me to become WWE champion. It felt like I became the No. 1 contender out of nowhere. I call what I did forcing the results. I wasn't happy with my position. I was putting in the work, but I wasn't getting the results. I was going to force the result no matter what the cost.
Jinder Mahal /
Wwe
Nowhere
Contender
Forcing
Originally
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Digitization and new technologies are rapidly changing all industries, forcing them to prepare for a tomorrow that is unpredictable. This also applies to the industry of container shipping, ports, and logistics, which largely has been driven by the traditional business models focused on optimizing how you move goods.
Soren Skou /
Business
Driven
Focused
Goods
Logistics
Models
Shipping
Tomorrow
Traditional
Unpredictable
Changing
Container
Forcing
Industries
Largely
Move
New Technologies
Ports
Prepare
Rapidly
Technologies
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Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
Rachel Cusk / Novelist
Intuitive
Mathematical
Pastime
Better People Will
Context
Forcing
Subjected
Thinks
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I don't really reach out, it has to be organic. If we're in a studio setting and we're feeling the vibe, that's cool, we can make something. Like, I've been in a bunch of sessions with people I haven't made music with. Like, I just chill. I'm not forcing it. I don't DM people like, 'Yooo, I'm trying to get on a track.'
Tierra Whack /
Bunch
Chill
Setting
Track
Cool Music People
Forcing
Organic
Studio
Reach
Vibe
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If the NFL can keep getting away with forcing players to wait three years out of high school before they're drafted - three! - the NCAA should be made to do away with its rules against paying players beyond room, board and tuition. I'm not talking about some token, $2,000-a-year 'spending money' stipend for every player.
Skip Bayless /
High School
Ncaa
Nfl
Not Talking
Spending
Spending Money
Talking
Tuition
Rules
Beyond
Board
Drafted
Forcing
Wait
Room
Paying
Token
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Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties' greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital).
Rick Perlstein / Historian
Conservatism
Derision
Humiliated
Irony
Right Wing
Term
Beg
Forties
Capital
Fifties
Forcing
Hat
Wall Street
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While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government has become a huge silent partner in all businesses, often taking a majority of the profits and forcing many unprofitable business decisions without the risk that it will be fired.
David Malpass / Economist
Expansion
Lip Service
Majority
Results
Risk
Silent
Decisions
Businesses
Chooses
Washington
Effect
Facing
Fired
Forcing
Lip
Partner
Pays
Profits
Repeatedly
Service
Small Businesses
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In eighth grade, I pretty much didn't want to pass. I was 6'8'.' I was always bigger and stronger. I was getting triple-teamed, and the results weren't good. I wasn't helping my team. I was forcing shots. Then I started passing it out to my team, and they started hitting shots and slashing, and that's when things opened up for me.
Jahlil Okafor /
Eighth Grade
Hitting
Passing
Good Always Me
Good Me Always
Forcing
Grade
Opened
Slashing
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Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia - one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world.
Charles C. Mann / Journalist
Corporate
Developing
Factories
Giants
Handful
Named
Clean Up
Developing World
Forcing
Outsource
Polluted
Supply
Systems
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The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.
Douglas Rushkoff / Writer
America
Focus
Looking Forward
Millennium
Real
Sensibility
Bound
Contend
Forcing
Magnified
Predicted
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I have always believed that if you need to take your clothes off to get your man, you've begun to lose the battle. If you pull it off right, you can do it in a very classy way... Being sexy is about suggestion; it's about the tease. It's not about being obvious and forcing yourself out in the open. That takes all the fun out of being a woman.
Bipasha Basu / Film Actress
Men
Battle
Clothes
Fun
Obvious
Sexy
Tease
You Can Do It
Need
Begun
Believed
Open
Woman
Take
Classy
Forcing
Off
Lose
Right
Pull
Suggestion
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While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Competition
Employers
Fire
Free Choice
Health Care
Health Care System
Safety
Valve
Vision
Vouchers
Bear
Choice
Costs
Every American
Forcing
Fulfill
Hire
Insurance
More And More
Whose
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