I think I’m the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ – I’m pretty annoying, but driven.
Trump’s racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office – from his Muslim ban and his despicable treatment of DREAMers to his ruthless ramp-up of immigration raids and the callous termination of protections for Haitians and Salvadorans who fled natural disaster and violence.
When I started working in Mumbai, I was interested in working in the indie and niche spaces, as they do make really good cinema, driven by good stories. But then, I decided to explore everything possible.
Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and the American people. Comprehensive immigration reform will strengthen U.S. security and boost economic growth.
I wasn’t driven. I just really loved what I did.
The history of fiction is about family – an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations – inside the family.
When I started Teach For America as a college senior, I sensed that there were thousands of talented, driven college students and recent grads who were searching for a way to make a real difference in the world.
Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven.
I’m driven to win every single match.
The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.
Demand alone might let a business case be created, but things driven by that will have a risk of being soulless. You need it being driven from both directions. You need the nexus between demand and creative passion that wants to make something.
Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It’s entirely driven by the entertainment business and that’s what it is.
Perhaps you could say that mountaineers are driven by ego or our competitiveness, but there’s a lot more to it than that. Whether it’s a huge face in the Himalaya or some crag in the woods behind your house, exploration offers us a unique perspective on the world that you can’t really find anywhere else.
I was so driven that sometimes you don’t recognise all the good things that are happening to you.
We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.
The Italians have their priorities right: They’re driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don’t put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
I’ve had to prove myself. But I’m driven, and I would love to make my own mark on the world.
I’m a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.
The Green Party is full of motivated, driven people who want to make change happen as fast as possible.
I think for too many decades, the politicians have driven a wedge between the gay and lesbian communities and the religious communities for their own benefit, and I think it’s time to start to broach those divides.
If you’re given a chance, and you’re driven and obsessed and consumed when given the opportunity to prove people right, the sky is the limit.
I do play tennis in shorts, I have driven across the length and breadth of the country from Khardung La pass to Kanyakumari in my beloved Ambassador car, and I did compile my 100 Lyrics book, inspired by Lyrics by Sting. I don’t subscribe to any definition of an Urdu poet.
I love high concept movies, but they can only work if the source of inspiration is really human – if they’re driven by pain and strong emotions. Once you connect the audience with that, then I swear you can take them on the craziest journey, and they’ll come along.
The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.
I’m being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women’s most personal choices.
I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it’s a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.
Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.
The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He heaped calumny after calumny on my head, and I chose to be driven out rather than to subscribe.
There are just so many brilliant voices out there. I’m not the funniest person out there, I’m not the best interviewer. I’m not the best at anything, but I really just am a big fan of everyone. I’m really driven by trying to make sure that representation is out there.
I think that Dean Ambrose is driven to create a first-time-ever, unique character that other people in the future can be compared to.
The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
The way the world is going, it’s technology driven. And it isn’t just driven by the old super powers, it’s driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
I love to support someone that is driven to their job and is passionate about what they do.
I’ve always driven big SUVs. I’m from Maine, and there’s a point to driving a big SUV in Maine. I don’t really need a 4WD in L.A., but on the 405, people are crazy, and you need a tank. I like the visibility factor.
I can tell you what I’m driven by. I’m driven by what’s in Israel’s interest.
I like my villains clever, deep, and driven by pure evil.
Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.
A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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.
India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.
I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I’ve never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.
I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn’t gone into acting. Mind you, it’s a great life, going around pretending you’re other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.
The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain’s long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, ‘The Godfather,’ is entirely character driven, propelled by the transformation of a crime lord’s youngest son, who breaks bad when he evolves from white-sheep war hero to blood-soaked inheritor of his father’s empire.
I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I’m so academically driven.
I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.
Even when black folks make me angry, I know that the foundation is that I love us. I want us to win, and I want us to have all the things that we deserve in the world. And that’s driven by love.
Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
The question now is can better content be driven solely by more money. I have learned in 26 years that only money cannot give you best content.
I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
We were driven off like rats in five minutes.
The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.
The need to deal with pathogens has driven the evolution of the vertebrate immune system, so it should not be surprising that experiments with infectious agents have often illuminated key elements of the underlying mechanisms.
