Hard Quotes - Page 20

• I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

  Tobe Hooper

  Tired, Long, Speech

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• I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree... I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

  Jimmy Smits

  Education, College, Degrees

  "Jimmy Smits - Actor, Activist and Altruist". Interview with Lisa Manafian, www.hispanic-today.com. September 8, 2011.

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• You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

  Ellen Page

  Hero, Thinking, Evil

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• You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.

  Ellen Page

  Heart, Ideas, Trying

  Ellen Page's speech at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive conference at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

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• You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

  Bette Davis

  Way, Gravestone, Knows

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• Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going

  Goldie Hawn

  Crazy, Men, Lovely

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• Last night, we did the Threatdown -- God, it's hard to even talk about this -- and for the first time, I didn't mention bears. It's winter, they're asleep, I didn't think it would be a problem. But today I see this in the Toronto Globe and Mail -- apparently a 700-pound polar bear showed up at a children's hockey game. I've said this before, they're after our kids -- they're tender, juicy, you don't even have to throw away the bones.

  Stephen Colbert

  Children, Kids, Hockey

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• We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Fighting, Honor

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• It's hard to find a reason that is not environmentally centered, that [doesn't have] something to do with global warming or what the planet is going through. The amount of tornadoesit's like three times the highest amount ever before, right? Something weird is happening with all of these natural catastrophes.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Three, Global Warming, Reason

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• A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Viruses, Why Not

  "The dead and the quick" by Simon Pegg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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• I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people - and certainly working moms - are not able to do that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Mom, People, Appreciate

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• Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

  Christoph Waltz

  Father, Challenges, Actors

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

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• My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever

  James Marsters

  Philosophy, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• I don't fall often, but I fall hard. And when you fall hard, it takes a while to get up.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Fall, Get Up

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• When I was in love, I fell so hard. I was really, really, really in love. The way it made me feel was priceless. And in a blink of an eye, my whole life changed. Everything that I knew was different. I never thought I'd feel that pain in my life.

  Rihanna

  Pain, Life Changing, Eye

  "Rihanna Opens Up About Love", www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2012.

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• Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

  Bill Nye

  Tree, Earth, Spheres

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• Only in failure do you reach success. You can only get to the good stuff when you've done the hard stuff.

  Kate Hudson

  Done, Stuff

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

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• I just did a five-day raw-food diet, but I'll never do that again. It's really hard! I'd wake up in the morning feeling great and go to bed feeling miserable, because dinner would be cucumbers, kale, and dressing. I mean, at the end of the day, if you can't have a Girl Scout cookie and a piece of cheese, what is life all about?

  Amanda Seyfried

  Girl, Morning, Mean

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• I'm in an unusual stage right now, because I haven't dated in so long. The sense of isolation turns it all into a bigger deal. Just taking the risk of opening that door is really hard for me right now.

  Andie MacDowell

  Doors, Long, Risk

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• I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

  Mischa Barton

  Careers

  "Mischa Barton's Meltdown in Full 'View'" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. September 11, 2009.

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• I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way

  Holly Hunter

  Careers, Office, Way

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• On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

  Scott Bakula

  Married, Shows, Show Business

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• I find that the best way into things is to open my heart up to it and allow it to be as truthful and honest as I can be, and I can make it. It's hard to do that; it's hard to open yourself up to something.

  Lee Pace

  Heart, Way, Honest

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• I would [call myself a feminist], yes. I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still. I do think because women are so clever and flexible and such good communicators, it been hard for men to evolve and keep up. I think we could do a little better to help them out.

  Rashida Jones

  Clever, Believe, Men

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