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Pressure Quotes

He is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of his mother, and has to deal with the pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bipolar disorder.

– Kim Kardashian

On husband Kanye West.

Love is louder than the pressure to be perfect.

– Demi Lovato

Title of campaign to help teenage girls cope with pressure to be perfect.

I’m in my own fantasy team as well, so there’s quite a bit of pressure on it.

– Harry Kane

I’m very lucky, as I’ve never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.

– Holliday Grainger

Keep your blood pressure under control and pay attention to your urine. If it’s foamy, that’s not a good sign, and you need to check out your kidneys.

– Grizz Chapman

Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you’re inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you’re gone.

– Graham Hawkes

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.

– Herman Kahn

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

– Hank Johnson

When I went to Gladbach from Basel in 2012, I put a lot of pressure on myself at first, and it was too heavy. I will not put any pressure on myself at Arsenal, even though the transfer fee was high.

– Granit Xhaka

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

– Herman Wouk

I knew before I arrived that the pressure at a club that challenges for the title grows quickly. The season is long; we’ll become stronger with every game.

– Granit Xhaka

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

– Hillary Clinton

I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.

– Henry L. Stimson

If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse – it will disappear – and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn’t want that. Israel doesn’t really want that.

– Ian Lustick

And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.

– Hjalmar Schacht

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it – well, it is dangerous – but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.

– Harold Brodkey

I never promise something; I always say that I will try. Because if you promise something and you don’t do it, you will always be under pressure.

– Henrikh Mkhitaryan

It’s what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it’s an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

– Gerry Beckley

It’s better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

– Guy Forget

There’s a pressure to conform to particular images, and it feels a pretty exclusive pool of body image or facial image that is considered appealing. And in a way, that feels like pre-judging what an audience might actually want.

– Hattie Morahan

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

– Gregg Easterbrook

As leaders, we need to rise above petty politics and lead, rather than follow, the various interests and pressure groups in our respective countries.

– Hassan Rouhani

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.

– Jonathan Zittrain

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there’s a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

– Jeff Bridges

I like the pressure.

– Jaromir Jagr

Being in the limelight with ‘Glee,’ I’ve definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.

– Jenna Ushkowitz

Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That’s got to stop. And we’ve got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.

– Jack Keane

When I’m off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.

– Inbee Park

Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.

– Joe Namath

When you’re by yourself, you realize how much pressure you’re under and how much work you have to do.

– Joe Jonas

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