My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

- Christine Elise

I think when people see that you are shy, or even just calm, collected and reserved, they think you can be pushed around, made to do everything they want - but that's definitely not true of me. The people closest to me know that's not the case. They know I'm not a pushover.

- Leona Lewis

Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.

- Leo Burnett

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

- Kenny Chesney

Broadway was life-changing because it pushes you mentally, physically, emotionally - every way that you can be pushed. It makes you feel like there's nothing you can't do. It's like doing your own stunts.

- Keke Palmer

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

- Jean Racine

When I'm pushed, I shove.

- James Garner

I never fought because of my father. I started to box before he pushed me. It had nothing to do with him.

- Gerry Cooney

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

- Freeman Dyson

I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.

- Eliot Engel

I'm not going to allow myself to be pushed politically.

- Andrew Cuomo

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.

- Charley Pride

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

- Catherine Deneuve

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. I mean, some people do live in fear. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

- Bernhard Goetz

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

- Bernhard Goetz

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

- Brian Molko

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

- Asia Argento

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

- Andy Taylor

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

- Abel Ferrara

The Explorer edition of Glass wasn't for everyone, but the Explorer program pushed us to find a wide range of near-term applications and uses for something like Glass.

- Astro Teller