Difficulty Quotes - Page 23

• Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

  Paul Auster

  Degrees, Written, I Can

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

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• My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mother, Teenager, Parent

  "Michele Bachmann Responds to Mainstream Media Hostility". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 12, 2011.

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• Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Life, Death, Believe

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.67, Verso

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• We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.

  Annie Besant

  Husband, Home, Thinking

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy, I think there is a fairly clear line of demarcation, but the history of music is full of fusion. Popular and classical music have always found points of contact, of crossing, exchange, both drawing mutual profit.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Thinking, Two, Different Universes

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• Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Literature, Outcomes, Language

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Rocks, Degrees, Different

  "Rock Band vs. Real Band". www.slate.com. November 27, 2007.

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• Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

  Adam Carolla

  Bed, Stuff, Kind

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• Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, People, Survival

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• I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

  Chuck Close

  Faces, Hopeless, Mets

  "Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 2, 2010.

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• I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.

  Diablo Cody

  Children, Son, Years

  "Diablo Cody on the Challenge of Directing While Raising a Toddler, and Women in Film (Q&A)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

  Bessie Coleman

  Women, School, Flying

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• There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Men, Three

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

  Claire Danes

  People, Bipolar, Boundaries

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• What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?

  Alan Dershowitz

  Iran, United States, Nuclear

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• You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I spoke English perfectly. No one could correct my Spanish. And I think that I retreated to books as a way, you know, to be, like, masterful in a language that was really difficult for me for many years.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Kids, Thinking

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• When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

  Isak Dinesen

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Time

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• The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.

  Paul Dirac

  Lying, Science, Law

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• I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.

  Gabby Douglas

  Sacrifice, Journey, Challenges

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• Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

  Henry Drummond

  Character, Men, Obstacles

  Henry Drummond (2013). “The Greatest Thing in the World: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Motivational, Jobs, Class

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• We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

  Tony Dungy

  Believe, Numbers, Lists

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• The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt.

  Roger Ebert

  Sex, Book, Men

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.592, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  School, Play, Acting

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• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Good Life, Learning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

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