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• I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

  Jodie Foster

  Couple, Wish, Language

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• The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Needs, Belief

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• The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Skins, Trying

  "Philosophers set in stone: Steve Pyke's piercing portraits" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2011.

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• The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Gluten, Vegan, Difficult

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• One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Memorable, Health

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Acceptance, Discovery

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• It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, People, Parent

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• When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

  Henry Miller

  Trying, Resistance, Problem

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• Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Sight, Upset, Sometimes

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• I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

  Emma Thompson

  Witty, Disease And Death, People

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• It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

  Sting

  Song, Writing, Easy

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• The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

  Penelope Cruz

  Women, Careers, Pretty Woman

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

  Joanna Lumley

  Blow, Feet, Lions

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• Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

  J. J. Abrams

  Pitching, Difficult

  "J.J. Abrams on The End of 'Fringe,' 'Revolution' & Star Trek Into Darkness". Interview with Fred Topel, www.mandatory.com. January 12, 2013.

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• No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2405, e-artnow

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• For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

  David Cronenberg

  Reality, Self, Mind

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

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• Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

  George Sand

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Simplicity

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.355, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Thinking, May, Lasts

  ""Even now I have to pinch myself we are together": Bruce Forsyth on 30 years of wedded bliss". www.mirror.co.uk. January 12, 2013.

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• The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Decision, Acting

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.

  Rick Pitino

  Morning, Attitude, Negativity

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• I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Difficult, My Own

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• One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

  Jim Lee

  Real, Artist, Looks

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• When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots.

  Frederick Lenz

  Play, Tree, Lines

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