Demanding Quotes

We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
John Boehner

Change, Work, Hope

Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.
Arthur Smith

Job, Acting, Painful

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.
Michael Haneke

Love, Patience, True

A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.
David Letterman

Time, Thinking, Through

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.
Guy Pearce

After, Actually, Quite

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
Bill Parcells

Mark, Toe, Expected

I am demanding.
Bill Parcells

In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.
Helmut Jahn

Europe, Build, Rent

It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn't have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough.
Thierry Henry

Time, Dad, Mean

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.
Mary-Kate Olsen

Fact, Full, Hands

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.
John Key

Family, Politics, View

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.
Benicio Del Toro

Character, Sometimes, Action

Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
Busy Philipps

Life, Yourself, Care

In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.
Doc Hastings

Veterans, Act, Congress

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.
Doc Hastings

Failure, Action, Veterans

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
Ira Gershwin

Happy, Others, Agree

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.
Steven Moffat

Writing, Pretty, Big

I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.
Joan Lunden

Time, Good, Morning

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
Margaret Spellings

Before, Workplace

I think I'm more demanding than any wife.
Jean Dujardin

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
Mary Catherine Bateson

Giving, Sometimes, Sharing

I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.
Victor Garber

Everything, Find, Energy

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.
Nicholson Baker

Nothing, Around, Books

Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now.
David Hasselhoff

Work, Mind, Hard

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.
Malcolm Boyd

Jesus, Find, Brother

Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.
Angel Haze

Confidence, Living, York

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.
Steve Spurrier

Job, Passion, Fire

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.
Mike Quade

Great, Give, Guy

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.
Cathy McMorris

Travel, Job, Hear

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.
Bernard Ebbers

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