#insist

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me. ↗

— Jon Secada

#contract #english #even #got #i

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it. ↗

— Helen Slater

#being #better #better mother #creative #daughter

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. ↗

— Steve Allen

#cheerleaders #insist #our #presidents #rational

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#classes #discomfort #expense #insist #marvels

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#arrangement #i #insist #just #latest

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#also #anyone #capable #eagerly #else

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#commander #courage #expediency #goes #insisted

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#artist #both #cannot #copy #ends

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#bear #behind #easier #follow #i

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#began #century #desire #done #earth