Pressing Quotes

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(from a 1998 "Mother Jones" interview) My generation didn`t face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know what suffering is. That`s why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn`t know if we could live up to his standards. But we knew we could live up to Bill Clinton`s. He`s more like one of us.

- Bill Maher

It`s definitely not a panic mode. It may seem like a panic mode, but it was only our second preseason game. If you start forcing things and pressing and trying too hard, more bad things are going to happen.

- Kyle Boller

It`s definitely not a panic mode. It may seem like a panic mode, but it was only our second preseason game. If you start forcing things and pressing and trying too hard, more bad things are going to happen. I`m not going to go out there and be timid and not throw balls because I`m scared to throw interceptions because people will boo me. That`s not how I play my game.

- Kyle Boller

It`s definitely not a panic mode. It may seem like a panic mode, but it was only our second pre-season game. If you start forcing things and pressing and trying too hard, more bad things are going to happen. I`m not going to go out there and be timid and not throw balls because I`m scared to throw interceptions because people will boo me. That`s not how I play my game.

- Kyle Boller

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

- Sylvester Stallone

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

- Eric Clapton

There are important things going on in the Stargate universe. I think the writers have a few more pressing storylines to put to paper.

- Lexa Doig

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

- Beau Bridges

I am a smoker. I work for the DHHR, and I think that there are more pressing issues to deal with. Why don`t you stop diabetics from going to the (dessert) bars in restaurants or obese people from loading up their trays or Applebee`s from serving someone 15 drinks? I`ve never known someone to kill someone from smoking too much.

- Deborah Roberts

I`m not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

- Dennis Franz

I think we wore them out. We tried pressing them the whole first half. We knew they had great shooters and sometimes shooters come up short when they get tired.

- John Diehl

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

- Michael Lewis

A lot of guys just smile now. Guys are not going to be sitting around moping and pressing anymore. It`s just nice. It`s not the turning point of the season, but it`s nice to get the media off our back and not be the highlights on SportsCenter whenever anybody falls down.

- Matt Stairs

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It`s far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

- Russ Feingold

It`s a pressing issue in the African-American community and for the larger general public.

- Anthony Clark

Our actions in addressing transportation should not be measured solely on the basis of how much additional money we an appropriate and run through a funding formula. Rather, we should be judged on how well existing and additional resources will be used - and for what actual results - to address our pressing transportation challenges.

- Joe May

He`s started off ridiculously slow. Some of it is bad luck, some of it is pressing too much, but I think this year`s going to be different.

- Tony Martinez

My personal hope is that every viewer will be inspired to become part of the solution to reducing our carbon emissions. As the film shows, everything we need to address this pressing problem already exists, but the time to act is now.

- Laurie David

I don`t know what happened. I can`t even begin to explain it. I wasn`t pressing. I thought I was relaxed, but it kept popping out of my hands. I`ve never had a game like that.

- Chad Owens

If you start pressing the edges and going beyond what other folks have done, sooner or later the courts will say they`d like some study showing that there`s a negative impact.

- David Owens

What I kept pressing upon them is one of the greatest gems there is '” a diamond. A diamond, whether it`s man-made or comes from coal, is a result of pressure. I wanted them to understand the more pressure is put on you, the more of a diamond you can become.

- John Chaney

That`s all this is right now: an idea. Right now there are some more pressing needs,

- Mark Sanders

When I travel throughout the town, what I`m hearing from residents far and wide is that the most pressing issue facing the town is corruption,

- Brian Foley

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

- Margaret Mead

While we continue working toward our mission of assisting Florida in its recovery from the six hurricanes that have impacted the state in the last year, we -- like the rest of the federal government and the American people -- are doing our best to help the nation respond to Katrina`s unprecedented challenge. A well-staffed call center will strengthen FEMA`s ability to respond quickly to the pressing needs of the millions of people affected by Katrina.

- Scott Morris

St. Edward made the mistake of pressing us. The greatest thing about that team was they had to play on our terms. With Stephanie and Amanda their quickness just was too much for teams. They were able to play the game more quickly than our opponents were. If you go back to our game film, they played more quickly. It was just three notches above what other teams were able to play.

- Scott Thomas

We came out of halftime running and pressing and I just got some opportunities.

- Chris Meyer

However, unfortunately there are other pressing and unpleasant issues that also must be dealt with: corruption, racism, betting, and doping.

- Sepp Blatter

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

- Peter Drucker

Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.

- Bill Richardson

The US was pressing Chile, Mexico - enormous pressures were brought to bear. What`s remarkable is that these countries didn`t break.

- Alan Labrosse

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

- Alan Labrosse

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.

- Alan Labrosse

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth`s best interests and our citizen`s pressing needs.

- Alice Abrams

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

- Andre Bakhos

We weren`t going to give up, ... We weren`t going to stop. We kept pressing and we came out on top. We said (after the second period) that Canada hasn`t seen our best yet. We were disappointed with our first two periods and they hadn`t seen our best hockey. We showed it to them in the third period and we got the gold.

- Andy Troszok

I wouldn`t say you`re going out there pressing trying to get three hits in every at-bat, because that`s definitely not the case. But I think you`re almost behind the eight ball when you miss that much time. When you get out there, you don`t really feel like you would during Spring Training or during the season when you`ve played all the games.

- Anthony Fauci

Let`s identify where the most pressing need is now.

- Antti Kohtala

When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God`s Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me'¦ then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell`s gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride.

- Arja Suominen

It`s very difficult for the Iraqi government to govern because the security situation is still very unstable. Among the most pressing problems, the most pressing is to try to construct a military and security bureaucracy that is not essentially tainted by militias or militia loyalties.

- Athuraliye Rathna

The next 12 months will not only determine the very future of the domestic automobile industry as we know it, but Detroit will become the lightning rod for the most pressing issues facing this country -- health care costs, pension reform, global competition and its threat to the industrial foundation of America.

- Austin Wilson

This has been a true regional effort by two parks systems, five cities, and many community groups to meet the pressing need for more places for young people and adults to participate in sports.

- Barbara Van Gelder

If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine

- Rob Stampfli