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Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn't going to do as he is told.
Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.
This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.
The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.
My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.
The al-Aqsa compound is occupied territory that, as per the status quo, is administered by the King of Jordan and the Muslim Waqf.
Trump is going to be the change agent. Hillary Clinton is going to be the status quo. Bernie Sanders is not going to be in the mix.
The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.
Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.
Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.
We don't have to accept an economy that doesn't work just because some people have got rich in the status quo. That is not democracy.
I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.
Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.
Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.
I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.
I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.
Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.
Visionless status quo policy towards Latin-America, particularly towards Cuba, has turned off a lot of people, and I think it's created an opening.
I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.
I try to use my influence and empower my community to always question the status quo - whether it relates to broader policy issues or YouTube gossip.
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans' status quo bias.
Most legacy companies get crushed - they get Blockbustered - because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo, to embrace what the future is.
When it all boils down, being Courtney has forced me to be different to the status quo, which means I have gotten to decide on every choice along the way.
People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.
I don't think I will be playing Q again. I could be wrong, but I'm not counting on it. The character has come from the bad boy to being the status quo, really.
When you really make things that really challenge the status quo or challenge issues, and you do it artistically, and you do it with no fear, people are listening.
The status quo is clearly broken, and we must strive for bigger, bolder solutions that will provide New Yorkers with the support they need to remain in their homes.
The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.
Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.
I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.
I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.
I stand up for what is right even if it puts me in a political conundrum. Supporting Senator Sanders was one of those moments when the status quo said 'Uh uh, bad girl.'
Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo.
Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.
Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.
When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.
Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made in the '80s and '90s can never change, is absurd.