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• I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.

  Mike Tyson

  Hate, Thinking, Views

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. But, I think it's important to change every time and come up with something that's as interesting as it can be, for your characters.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2012.

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• It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.

  Grace Slick

  Hippie, Thinking, Annoyed

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Sea, Cooking, Done

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• Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

  Mike Tyson

  Simple, Common Sense, Common

  Interview with Earl Sweatshirt, mag.citizensofhumanity.com. December 14, 2015.

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• Part of the reason I fell in love with the trail is because it was so extremely difficult, more difficult than the marathons and Ironmans I'd competed in. Not just physically but emotionally it was a new challenge, as well. It really helped me to learn and grow in so many ways.

  Jennifer Pharr Davis

  Challenges, Way, Marathon

  "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Waiting, Police

  "Dr. Ben Carson: Health Care Is 'Upside-Down'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

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• I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. "Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him!" Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.

  Mel Brooks

  Children, Kids, Eye

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• It becomes very difficult for us to adjust to a world without social media because we spend so much time involved with it.

  Kim Stolz

  Media, World, Social

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I do a few jokes about the economy but from an everyday person perspective. People like to laugh, and they especially like to laugh during difficult circumstances.

  Brian Regan

  People, Laughing, Perspective

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Robert H Schuller (2006). “Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!”, p.157, Orient Paperbacks

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• Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.

  Richard Branson

  Skills, People, Personality

  "How to Win by Throwing out the Traditional Hiring Playbook" by Sean McNamara, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.

  John Gruber

  Athlete, Artist, Organization

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• Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

  Plato

  Wise, Honey, Herbs

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• Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life! If up till now you have kept him at a distance, step forward. He will receive you with open arms. If you have been indifferent, take a risk: you won’t be disappointed. If following him seems difficult, don’t be afraid, trust him, be confident that he is close to you, he is with you and he will give you the peace you are looking for and the strength to live as he would have you do.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Distance, Giving

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ”, p.33, Loyola Press

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• I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.

  Clemence Poesy

  Thinking, People, Important

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• The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

  Amy Sillman

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• Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.

  Boyd Holbrook

  Thinking, People, Negativity

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

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• There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

  Ross Kemp

  Gang, Worst, Term

  Interview with Bertan Budak, uk.askmen.com.

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• If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, youre going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

  Steve Southerland

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

  Hakeem Jeffries

  Political, Definitions, Helpful

  "Interview With Hakeem Jeffries, Candidate for New York’s 8th Congressional District". Interview with Andrew Wilkes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those targeted by this culture of hate will become increasingly difficult. Rational debate will prove useless.

  Chris Hedges

  Hate, Get Better, Culture

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• The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.

  Fanny Kemble

  Husband, Children, Heart

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.6, University of Georgia Press

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• Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Brother, Children

  Attributed in "The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" by Henry Parry Liddon, (pp. 147-148), 1868.

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• Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly.
  [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est;
  Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

  Horace

  Heaven, Strive, Folly

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