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Quotes About Demand

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
~ Mike Leigh
There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.
~ Aidan Quinn
Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
~ Barton Seaver
It must be easy to be a liberal. When your policies don't work, you just change the goal posts and say we haven't done enough - and then demand more.
~ David Limbaugh
If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!
~ Emma Goldman
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
~ George R. R. Martin
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
~ Ludwig Quidde
There is a higher degree of operational excellence and rigor demanded of Stripe than of most companies.
~ Patrick Collison
Fans, especially ours, demand championships. That's what we're striving for.
~ Clay Matthews III
If you see the kids now they have attitude and a strong character. They play one or two games and demand they are involved. I didn't have that. I was too polite. It is not maybe always good to have fight, but gives a stamp - it shows directly that 'I am here. I mean business.'
~ Ryan Babel
The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay.
~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.
~ Skitch Henderson
Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.
~ James Hansen
When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.
~ Marilynne Robinson
There ought to be a law against necessity.
~ E. Y. Harburg
Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It's a love note for our people, but it's also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us.
~ Opal Tometi
China's government has far more control over the country's economy than our government has over ours, and it is moving from export dependence to a model of growth driven by domestic demand. Any restriction on exports to the U.S. would simply accelerate a process already underway.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.
~ Hansika Motwani
You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me.
~ Issa Rae
I call it, 'The Kentucky Effect.' Guys from Kentucky are usually drafted higher, and their shoe contracts are worth more. They're in more demand overall because they played here.
~ John Calipari
Our country has a capacity to cater to huge demands, both domestic and overseas.
~ Smriti Irani
Decisive too was the increasing acceptance of another key demand of the reformers: that the clergy distinguish themselves from the great mass of the Christian people—the laicus, or 'laity'—by embracing celibacy. By 1148, when yet another papal decree banning priests from having wives or concubines was promulgated, the response of many was to roll their eyes. 'Futile and ludicrous—for who does not know already that it is unlawful?
~ Tom Holland
There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.
~ Tom Masson
I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.
~ Tomaž Šalamun