Frustrating Quotes

• It's very frustrating not being on the air.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Air

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• I never found it frustrating not speaking.

  David Selby

  Found

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• It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

  Jason Dohring

  Kids, Careers, Long

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• Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Russia, Ideas

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• I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

  Jay Mohr

  Divorce, Golf, Thinking

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• You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

  Mindy Cohn

  Chance, Given, Offers

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• I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

  James Baker

  Presidential, Election, Margins

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• We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

  Cullen Hightower

  Life, Imagination, Political

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• I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

  Trevor Dunn

  Being In Love, Thinking, Musician

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• Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Ill Will, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• It's always frustrating when you leave people on base.

  Danny Bautista

  People

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• Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

  Sam Ewing

  Funny, Frustration, Talking

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• It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating

  Sara Paretsky

  Writing, Months, Pages

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• Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

  Barack Obama

  Calling, Sometimes, Midst

  "Obama: 'Fear' drives voters" by Carol E.Lee, www.politico.com. October 16, 2010.

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• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  Salma Hayek

  Writing, Heaven, Acting

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• Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

  Mary Douglas

  Real, Equality, Frustrated

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• Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Sex, Reading, Computer

  "The Odyssey File". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1984.

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• To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Giving, Feelings, Depth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

  Alton Brown

  Problem, Junkie, Procrastinator

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• At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Exercise, Iraq, House

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• Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Science, Errors

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Able, Life Is

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• The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

  Mira Sorvino

  Love You, Games, Names

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• We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

  Anne Northup

  Way, Achieve, Havens

  "Freshman Rep. Anne Northup Wins GOP Attention with Flair" by Susan Crabtree, www.questia.com.

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• For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Magic, Photographer

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