Hard Core Quotes

• What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

  Alison Sweeney

  Dieting, Rest Of Your Life, Plans

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• A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, Men, Doe

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.753, Best Books on

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• Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.

  Conan O'Brien

  Stars, War, Years

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• I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.

  Kelly Ripa

  Heart, Thinking, Trying

  "Kelly: Live & Uncensored". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 7, 2012.

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• All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

  Gary North

  Struggle, Successful, Organization

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• The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed pornography online. Considering the standard climax to even the most vanilla hard-core scene today, that means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face.

  Gail Dines

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  Barry Pepper

  Prison Guards, Directors, Casting

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• I don't attend an actual school but I'm still following through with high school. I do work with a tutor for about six hours a day. It's hard core but definitely worth it, and it's my main focus now - finishing up high school before I release my new album and apply to college.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  School, College, Focus

  "Teen Talks To: JoJo". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. September 7, 2017.

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• I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who profane sacred ground do not have the imagination to educate the young. … Until the left comes to its senses about the cultural power of religion, the right will continue to broaden its appeal.

  Camille Paglia

  Religious, Believe, Gay

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

  Mordecai Richler

  Meaningful, Book, Addiction

  Mordecai Richler (1974). “Notes on an endangered species and others”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Father, Blue, Montana

  "Ehrenreich, The Prey and the Predators". Tomdispatch Interview, www.tomdispatch.com. June 4, 2006.

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• My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Teaching, Boston

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• Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

  Holly Valance

  Attention, Pay, Too Much

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• Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

  James Bryant Conant

  Agreement, Individual Differences, Democracy

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• I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.

  Curt Schilling

  Playing Games, Years, Gamer

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• The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.

  Pola Negri

  Tired, Leaving, Brutality

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• There's always going to be the cooler-clubbers who are going to harvest a lot of fish, but I think the hard-core bass fishermen release just about everything they catch these days. Years ago, I think people were willing to release smaller fish, but now I think they're willing to release them all, and that's the important part.

  Philip K. Chapman

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.

  Jenna Fischer

  Drama, Yeah, Knows

  "Interview: Jenna Fischer on A Little Help, Dinner Theater, and Breaking the Pam Mold". Interview with Christine Champ, www.mtv.com. June 7, 2010.

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• A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.

  Big L

  War, Law, Wit

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• Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.

  James Patterson

  Strong, Teeth, Hot

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.

  John Avlon

  Country, Reality, Self

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• Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

  Bruce Catton

  Understanding, Saws, Patient

  Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage

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• Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Children, Growing Up, Men

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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• But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.

  Mark Tobey

  Moon, Self, Creating

  "Reminiscence and Reverie" by Mark Tobey, Magazine of Art, 44, pp. 228, 231, October 1951.

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• You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Effort, Enlightenment

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