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Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man. ↗

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

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If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack. ↗

— David Knopfler

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The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. ↗

— Lord Acton

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I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. ↗

— David Baldacci

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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going. ↗

— Courtney Love

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