Keep Going Quotes - Page 8

• I welcome challenges. I like challenges. It gives me a reason to keep going.

  Rose Namajunas

  Ufc, Mma, Giving

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• Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

  Harold Washington

  Political, Needs, Never Quit

  Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

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• I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going.

  Jonathan Adler

  Perseverance, Lying, Should Have

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• I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her.

  Will Smith

  Self, Keys, Doubt

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• I'm satisfied and proud of the things I did - even the bumps and the bruises that I've had on the way. You fall down, you get up, you brush yourself off and you keep going. And that's what we're doing.

  Gucci Mane

  Fall, Proud, Way

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• At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Parent, Acting, Able

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• The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wall, Fire, Air

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• As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

  Robert Duvall

  Offering, Long, Fit

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• Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it's wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.

  Alan Jackson

  Love, Night, Sight

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• It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

  Karin Fossum

  Hard Work, Tired, Character

  Karin Fossum (2013). “Broken”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.

  James Frey

  Fighting, Boys, Idols

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• If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Path, Interest, Deeper

  "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.

  Jonathan Dee

  Nice, Writing, Trying

  "Jonathan Dee's Art Of Apology". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 4, 2013.

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• Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

  Cliff Burton

  Confused, Crazy, Looks

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• Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

  Dean Young

  Sea, Enough, Slaughterhouses

  Dean Young (1999). “First Course in Turbulence”

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• I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Thinking, Vacation, Japan

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• I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

  John Krasinski

  Thinking, People, Guilty

  "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

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• I was fresh out of drama school and had no idea what I was doing. They hustled me along and Bill Cosby tolerated my rookie behavior. It was great. Once you have 'The Cosby Show' on your resume, you can keep going.

  Michael Weatherly

  Drama, School, Ideas

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• When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because they'll give me a bit of energy to keep going.

  Carol Vorderman

  Tired, Giving, Energy

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• When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery.

  Jim Talent

  Jobs, Moving, Recovery

  "Starting Point With Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. June 14, 2012.

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• We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Littles, Involved

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• Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

  Matt Stone

  Levels, Deeper

  "Why South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone Now Say It's 'Wrong' to Offend" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Believe, Writing, Voice

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• Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

  Marisha Pessl

  Writing, Forever, Band

  "Random Rules: Marisha Pessl" by Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2006.

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• The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

  Ted Nelson

  Cutting, Ideas, Space

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