Frustrated Quotes - Page 18

• I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary....I was very frustrated.

  Tom Cruise

  Kids, Years, Study

  "New Again: Tom Cruise And Cameron Crowe". Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

  Patricia Moyes

  Bricks, Journalism, Journalist

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• The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Beautiful, Disappointment, Gay

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• What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Expression, Years, Tree

  Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

  Michael Sheen

  Mother, Dad, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.

  Kevin Garnett

  Light, Waiting, Red

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. April 4, 2006.

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• Well, I think the most realistic ways to keep them [Saddam Hussien & Slobadon Milisevic] isolated in the world of public opinion and to work with our alliance is to keep them isolated. I'm just as frustrated as many Americans are that Saddam Hussein still lives. I think we ought to keep the pressure on him. I will tell you this: If we catch him developing weapons of mass destruction in any way, shape or form, I'll deal with that in a way that he won't like.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Public Opinion

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• The funny thing is, last summer we were golfing together, me, him and Alonzo Mourning. I don't know how to golf, but it's an unbelievable opportunity to go out and golf with one of the greats. And he's out there making fun of my swing - I can't hit the ball - and I'm getting frustrated because I'm a competitor. So Alonzo pulled me aside and said, 'Man, you're getting the chance to golf with Bill Russell. How many people can say they've done that?' And I looked at him and said, 'You know what? You're right.'

  Dwyane Wade

  Summer, Fun, Golf

  "Here's One Reason to Like the Heat" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 17, 2010.

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• I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.

  Uma Thurman

  Comedian, Different, Watches

  Source: movieweb.com

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• If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will write for you.

  Richard Lewontin

  Writing, Ambition, Way

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I am frustrated by celebrities who decide to write children's books because they think it's easy. That drives me crazy. It's frustrating because it's unfair to children. Because they'll get a lot of attention, they'll get a lot of marketing budget and so on just because they're a celebrity - the Madonnas, the Ricky Gervaises, the Russell Brands.

  John Boyne

  Children, Crazy, Book

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• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Desire, Camouflage

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

  Todd Haynes

  Art, Rocks, Envy

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2007.

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• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Play, Justice, Progress

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• I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Hate, Opportunity, People

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• When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Summer, Mother, Book

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• Friends, if it matters to you, I think it is less important that we agree and more important that we learn to disagree with respect. Let's not expect to agree and get frustrated when it doesn't happen. Let's strive to hear each other out while bringing out the best in ourselves and others. I know it's difficult because I feel it everyday. But I also know it'll be good for us as individuals, for the organization, and the country. I invite you to strive with me and help shift our culture.

  Annabel Park

  Country, Thinking, Organization

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• Whenever I think of how religion started, I picture some frustrated old man making out a list of all the ways he could gain power, until he finally came up with the great solution of constant fear and guilt, then he leaped up and started planning a new wardrobe.

  Steve Blake

  Men, Thinking, Guilt

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• On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  College, Men, Boston

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• It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't connect to in any way. It's hard for Americans to connect to Arabic-speaking Iraqis in refugee camps or Pashto-speaking Afghans in the countryside, and having a character who is a vehicle through which you're allowed to make these relationships really allowed us to gain in an emotional weight that was difficult for us to do any other way to make it all human.

  Rick Rowley

  War, Character, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

  Eleanor Catton

  Moving, Feels, Position

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• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  Nate Berkus

  Baseball, Mother, Years

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• The more I learned about games, the more frustrated I became because the games weren't very good. I could tell a good game from a bad game. My conclusion was: let's make our own games.

  Satoshi Tajiri

  Games, Very Good, Conclusion

  "The Ultimate Game Freak". Time Magazine Interview (Volume 154, No. 20), content.time.com. November 22, 1999.

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• I think, as an artist, whether you're making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited - the fact that you're generating some sort of emotion out of an audience is, to me, worth it.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• My family brought me up to be very assimilated and accepting of everyone. But I do get frustrated when I see other Asians who behave in a way that reflects a stereotype.

  Pearl Tan

  Way, Stereotype, My Family

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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