Trouble Making Quotes

• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Business, Entrepreneur, Lasts

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• In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Sick, Credit

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• When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon.

  Esther Hicks

  Decision, Trouble

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• I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?

  David Brooks

  Graduation, Emotional, Heads Or Tails

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• Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will discover another culture through an American writer rather read a writer from that culture.

  Laila Lalami

  Book, Culture, Trouble

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I think this’ll definitely tide me over while we’re apart,”Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair, considering I still had trouble making my limbs operate. “Oh, Kitten,” he murmured as his lips dragged down my throat. “You didn’t really think we were done, did you?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Thinking, Done, Arms

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• Peter Parker has superpowers, but he still has trouble making rent every month. I identify with that in a way that I don't with, like, Superman, for instance. He's just less interesting because he's too perfect.

  Timothy Miller

  Perfect, Interesting, Way

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.

  Bob Hope

  Government, Firsts, Trouble

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• If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it's great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire.

  Joan Jett

  Book, Play, Fire

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

  Roxane Gay

  Lonely, Children, Reading

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Sick, Feelings, Want

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.

  Bruce L. Shelley

  Christian, Religious, Biblical

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• What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Eye, Men

  George Santayana (1998). “The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays”, p.139, U of Nebraska Press

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• Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.

  Mark Ronson

  Fun, Kids, Thinking

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• Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Escaping, World

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Pygmalion”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

  Bruce Sterling

  Movie, Shoes, Bollywood

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• Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
  which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
  If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

  Alan Watts

  Anxiety, Brain, Attention

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• When you are having trouble making a decision or are at a crossroads in your life and are confused about which path to take, cry out to God and ask for His guidance.

  Jacklyn Zeman

  Love, Family, Confused

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• You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's their prerogative. But I think anybody who looks at it objectively has trouble making the case that somehow this is a bad economy.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Looks, Trouble

  Interview With Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2004.

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• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  B. D. Wong

  Jobs, Order, Issues

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