Female performers have been doing this for years – pushing the envelope about sexuality – and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
I always make a joke about this but it’s true; Conor can make a highlight video of training hard and like, ‘Alright guys, title shot. Give the man a title shot.’ People will be saying ‘look what he is doing, look at the way he is hitting the bag, look at the way, I don’t know, he is pushing himself in the wheelchair.’
I look forward to pushing the boundaries of my craft and taking new chances.
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith – and that nothing has to be proven.
I definitely want to be in a situation where I’m playing with players that are getting me better every day by pushing me and vice versa.
I hate it when bands keep making the same record over and over, so we’re pushing ourselves to try new things and experiment in our writing approach.
Savio Vega kept pushing me, pushing me, as he was teaching me, too, how to be a heel and things. And how to… ‘Let’s just try this tonight: just, we’ll lock up, you’ll go behind me, rub up and down my chest.’
I read ‘Pushing the Limit’ and ‘Dare You To’ by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but now I’m a believer.
We must ensure that more binding, durable, and enforceable fiscal rules go hand-in-hand with funding certainty for countries pursuing sound and sustainable economic policies. We need to keep pushing forward towards a comprehensive solution to the challenges of the eurozone.
We have been pushing forward on a new way of storytelling we call ‘collaborative journalism’ on behalf of a number of our clients.
I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are, but I have to say it’s not because of my brushing skills. It’s from Crest Whitestrips, and that’s the honest truth. I don’t believe in going to the dentist and paying for whitening.
I’ve been pushing and training for Lucha Underground and AAA, as well as parkour and stunt training for my movie, and I’ve blended those styles together for my wrestling.
I’m not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!
There’s no longevity on YouTube. You have to keep pushing boundaries.
I’m the least-experimental writer. The idea of trying things just for the sake of pushing the envelope, that’s never really interested me.
The beauty of football is you have to perform through ups and downs in a public form with a team and the discipline and the pushing through it and the preparation that it takes to be great – all of those things have served me well.
People are fed up with broadcasters pushing the boundaries too far.
You want to push a guy up against a cage, there’s nothing like pushing a car.
There are people that said I will not be as good as my father, that I am trash, and asked why I am playing for the U.S.A. You know, that is just pushing me to be the star that my country has been looking for.
My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don’t believe in pushing things on people.
I have a strong point of view, and that’s a double-edged sword. It can be a phenomenal characteristic in terms of getting things done, but it can also mean I will be relentless in my pushing for my point of view.
Transparent’ does a good job of pushing the envelope in a real way, not in a sensational or salacious way.
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal… building something in space that is really for all humankind.
There’s a reason why Silicon Valley is the worldwide innovation center, or why this is the startup valley, because I truly believe startup companies like mine are pushing the economy forward.
Four-men aren’t used to picking up guys pushing the ball in transition. Let alone, somebody getting the rebound and just busting.
Dirty Projectors has always been a band that’s been card-carrying modernists in terms of pushing different kinds of abstraction to the fore and trying to take them to the center of the culture or something like that.
It’s very strange – several years ago, I was in the running for the ‘Young Frankenstein’ musical. Kristin Chenoweth was going to do it, but then she backed out because she got ‘Pushing Daisies’ on TV, and then, the next day, I went in for my final-final audition, and I saw Megan Mullally standing there.
A lot of people that make films say, ‘We need this kind of character. Who’s done it before? Get them to do it again.’ That is exactly what actors are pushing against. It’s kind of a cliche to talk about being stereotyped in that way, but it happens.
I’m attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.
We are pushing for Medicare-for-all. That’s an economic issue – it really is. And if we can work toward a fair, more-equitable system for working families, everybody would have health care.
I felt incomplete. I was always happy but I felt incomplete and that I needed to be pushing through.
When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn’t really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.
I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn’t the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you’re a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.
Being at the top means never being satisfied with what you’re comfortable with – comfortable means you’ve stopped pushing, and you’re either going to get passed, or you already have been. But if you’re constantly pushing yourself, then you’re exposing yourself to falls and injuries.
I don’t think I’m generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy – and pushing the line as much as possible.
I’m always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.
I’m always pushing myself.
It’s about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I’m pushing, and I’m a strong believer in that when you lift barriers, when you deregulate a lot of stuff, basically you improve the equality of opportunities.
I’ve got my foot in ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I’m really pushing myself to do these new projects. It’s scary as hell, but it’s fun to have other things to keep my creative brain cooking.
If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part.
As long as I feel I’m pushing myself and my riding, then I’m where I want to be.
If you look at the history of art and fashion, it’s always been political. It’s always been pushing boundaries.
Comedy, in my opinion, is best when it’s in the gray, and you’re kind of pushing people’s thoughts that they sort of had but never vocalized. And I think a joke is not good if someone says something, and immediately people are clapping because they’re like, ‘Yes! That is how I feel as well!’
The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia… but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.
I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.
They’re pushing credit cards. They don’t take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don’t take this one, but they take that one, or you’d better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.
If I’m, like, in a grocery store, I don’t get recognized that much, but it’s like, you know, when someone comes up to me and says, ‘Hey, I’m a big ‘Pushing Daisies’ fan,’ you just feel like, ‘Oh, wow – you’re the one who watched it. So nice to meet you.’
There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn’t talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.
I think, today, television is asking too many loaded questions, pushing further for ratings.
I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly.
I think it’s nice to know that people in the industry are paying attention to all of the hard work you’ve done throughout the years and rewarding you for it. It reminds you to keep doing it, to keep pushing yourself, and to always remain that way.
