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I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
The Canadian risings of the 1830s obliged the men in London to think much harder about settler self-government.
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.
Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.
It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
I've always hated to lose and I continue to hate it. But I've been obliged to accept it because I also have had some crushing defeats.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.
Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.
Abraham Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican War. But once Americans were under fire, people who were on the fence felt obliged to support it.
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.
I'm the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
As a foreign company and offshore entity we will not be obliged to comply with the rules of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and countries like that.
However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.
I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.
Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.
The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.
On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.
He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.
We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.
I want to have different Ferraris for different Ferraristi. We have a lot of parallel activities that can increase revenues without being obliged to produce more cars.
When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.
I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.