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I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.

I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.

The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.

I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.

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.

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.

In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I'd fall into these ditches because I was lost in stories as I was walking along. It's still dangerous for me to drive. I've driven into the gate outside my house numerous times.

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to.

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is 'cut to the chase, cut to the chase.'

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.

A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

Something about John Cleese was always very unsettled, I felt. There was always something else he wanted to do. He seemed constantly driven by this sense that there was a nirvana somewhere; some unique place where mind, body and soul would be utterly satisfied.

I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!

I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

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.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.

Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.

I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.

A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.

The only reason for them to collusively not to sell is to try to continue the scarcity that has driven natural gas prices to historic highs.

The plunge yesterday was driven by panic selling, the rebound today is a strong signal for buying.

We are pleased to report a strong start for 2006. Our first quarter sales were driven by volume increases across all of our businesses. We continued to benefit from our successful efforts to build revenues while controlling expense growth, resulting in double-digit earnings gains.

We are pleased to continue our partnership with York Street Capital. This expanded capital commitment helps to fill the growing need for junior capital driven by strong buyout markets and record levels of private equity fundraising. Through York Street, we are providing broader financing alternatives to companies and equity sponsors at a time when flexible junior capital solutions are an important component in financing both buyouts and corporate expansion. We believe that York Street will continue to generate superior returns and provide attractive co-investment opportunities for Teachers' Private Capital.

We are a hard working, defensive driven team. We were very competitive in all our matches this season.

We are looking forward to being part of a network driven by the exceptional talents at both CBS and Warner Brothers Entertainment.

There are concerns that the revival in euro zone business confidence has been driven by the external sector, which could be undermined if the euro keeps on rising.

There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.

We're so used to seeing celebrities being driven around in limos. I can go to an In-N-Out Burger whenever I want, and no one takes my picture.

What we're seeing is a tremendous increase in the number of complaints and horror stories, including fatalities, associated with the rush to corporate, profit driven health care in our country.

United Tote is the technology provider for many of the premier racing facilities in the world. These customers understand what's needed to succeed in today's technology driven business climate.

With the increased focus on the potential of an economic slowdown, driven by the higher energy prices, anything that comes out of the economic data to either support or refute that is going to be key.

We face a timetable that is driven by nature, science and by the predicted effect of climate change on our world, not by our own negotiating processes.

We're being bounced around as robust crude supplies take the cream off a market driven up by geo-political concerns.

Yahoo's branded business should benefit from a combination of volume and pricing growth, driven by the holiday shopping period and by continued migration of ad dollars online.

We're really at the start of the Internet commerce curve. It's a market we think we will dominate as we go forward. As more people use the Web, more people will be driven to our database.

We know we'll have to be patient as the younger players get comfortable with this level of hockey, but this is also a pretty driven group, ... This group can do a lot of good things.

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.

Would any of these people let their family or driven themselves in a Ford Explorer with these tires if they thought there was a problem?

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...

We're seeing the beginning of much higher prices, driven by problems with the dollar. People need to protect themselves in this environment, and investors are getting more defensive.

We're seeing an improvement in output, which seems to be driven by both the export side and the domestic demand side, and we're seeing a gradual diminution of deflation.

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.

I'm not the greediest person. Of course, I work in a business where that's all relative and there's a lot of money to be made. I think I'm satisfied making as much as I have and I don't feel particularly driven to have more.

We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.

I've never been driven by box office.

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

We achieved strong results during the year, driven by strong organic growth in all our consumer and commercial client businesses. This organic growth reflects the benefits of continuing focus on the strong local relationships we have with our mid-market clients.

We achieved significant gross margin improvement driven by the strong performance of our recently acquired Communications Test and Measurement business,

I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person.

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

We're a driven team. We know what we want and what we need to get it.

We've seen a tremendous amount of interest in that sector of the office market. It's driven by a few things, including rising development costs.

The fact that price pressures are muted suggests that earnings growth of Indian companies will continue to be driven by volume growth, not by pricing power.

The fact is that mileage driven is a lot less predictive than where that car is based.

There is coming the time, sometime in the next decade, during which our global ability to produce conventional oil on a daily basis will hit a peak. It will probably not be directly recognizable at the time, owing to ongoing improvements driven by technology, economic factors, and a gradual improvement of production of unconventional oils and other sources of energy.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.

This really is a new application driven by the customer base.

This race also marks our second of three races in which one of our cars will feature a special Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) paint scheme and synergistic 'Energy to Care' logo, ... For this race, the special paint scheme will be on the #20 CITGO Pontiac Crawford that will be driven by Andy and Tony. I know that when I raced our last race proudly carrying the banner, it gave me extra incentive because it is for such a special cause. I'm sure it will energize Andy and Tony for this race as well.

This quarter delivered exceptionally strong applications performance driven by the successful integration of PeopleSoft,

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.

When was the last time you saw a story being driven forward by dances and songs?

There are two meanings to the word dodo. The first one is a stupid person. The other is a species that was driven to extinction.

We're shifting from an economy driven by consumer spending and home building to one driven by business investment.

We're complaint driven. Almost everything is complaint driven by the citizens, or maybe other staff. I'm not out looking for violations so I can pick on a property.

Let us be driven by the responsibilities we have and feel, responsibilities to our respective countries, to humanity, to our one and only planet, ... Let us seek consensus for outcomes that move us all toward substantial solutions. Let us set our sights on an effective, more inclusive, long-term international approach to climate change.