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• I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Voice, Wish, Sound

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• Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Sea, Mind, Wake Up

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• For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.

  Cliff Martinez

  Writing, Cutting, Waste

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• Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.

  Marie Colvin

  War, Home, Differences

  "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• [L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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• Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Spring, Tombstone

  Charles Kuralt (1979). “Dateline America”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved and don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough, Yeah there are days that we all feel like we're messed up, But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough.

  Britt Nicole

  Truth Is, Enough, Diamond In The Rough

  Song: Gold, Album: Gold, 2012

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• CeNation. In Austin, TX, preparing to perfrom for members of our military. In that vein, I would like to let the Rough Riders Platoon know that even though they are going through a difficult time, with brave soliders making the ultimate sacrifice, to keep their heads up, hearts strong, and know that all of them are in my thoughts. Never Give Up.

  John Cena

  Strong, Giving Up, Military

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• There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Class, Ivy

  "DRUDGE MATCH: Camille Paglia Gets Intimate With The Shady Wizard Of The Web". Interview with Matt Drudge, freerepublic.com. November 6, 2003.

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• Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Eye, Motor Racing

  "The final pit stop". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2000.

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• In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as having strength under control, being calm and peaceful when surrounded by a heated atmosphere, emitting a soothing effect on those who may be angry or otherwise beside themselves, and possessing tact and gracious courtesy that causes others to retain their self-esteem and dignity. Instead of losing, the gentle gain. Instead of being ripped off and taken advantage of, they come out ahead!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Self Esteem, Taken, Thinking

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• You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

  Babyface

  Diamond In The Rough, Diamond

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• Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

  Babyface

  Diamond In The Rough, Producers, Executives

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• Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spring, Winter, Thinking

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.980, Delphi Classics

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• Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Cutting, Years, Choices

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• I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.

  Jimmy Carr

  Book, School, Saws

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• Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

  Steve Coogan

  School, Sound, Different

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• I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Bishop (2010). “Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, p.63, Applewood Books

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• No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

  John Muir

  Life, Risk, Hardship

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Numbers, Long

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains”, p.15, Theodore Roosevelt

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• I think computers have changed things tremendously. At one time, you tended to take the rough with the smooth. But now, because you can go back and stop and start, and have a limitless amount of tracks if anything looks remotely good, we keep it. You've got to go through the agony of sounding very human at first, and then you work on it with the aid of technology. Computers have revolutionized things in many ways allowing me to work to a standard I could have only joked about fourty years ago.

  Steve Hackett

  Technology, Thinking, Track

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• Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Hurt, Winning

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• The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

  Paul Theroux

  Morning, Dark, Lakes

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

  Anne Bronte

  Song, Long, Should

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• I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.

  Elvis Presley

  Animal, Play, Lions

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